Jim Himes

I wonder, as an economist, whether you agree that our growth rate has been in some way artificially held back.

None of the terrorist attacks that have occurred in the United States since 9/11 have been undertaken by the refugees or immigrants from the seven countries that are named in the executive order.

I have struggled to get either Justice or any of the regulators or anybody to say that one simple way...

At the end of the day, we are just sort of asking for some scrutiny here.

The only thing standing between us and this meaning being meaningless and between them believing that the banking system doesn't work is trust and faith in the fact that it does.

This is really about people's faith in organizations like yours and like the one that you're testifying in front of today.

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The narrative, as it has developed, is that is true, and that is a question to you.

Many of us appreciate the position that the Fed was put into, and many of us will go to the mat to defend the Fed against the many ideas that would damage the monetary policy independence of the Fed

A lot of us subscribe to a point of view held by much of the economic profession, which is that this place, the Congress, abdicated its economic role in 2010 in favor of austerity

Those things have been linked to the recovery by my friends in the Republican Party.

Let us be very, very careful about scaling back authorities that had everything while we were negligent to do with the recovery.

This policy has worked.

And you know what, we highlight the word 'innovative' around here, and we say we want them to be innovative.

Since then, since 2009, the Congress has completely abdicated the role that economists across the political spectrum would say we should do, which is to continue with classic fiscal stimulus.

With the exception of the American Recovery Act, which was profoundly controversial and partisan here, Congress has utterly and completely abnegated its role to conduct the kind of fiscal policy that classical economics and most economists…

I don't think we can build an entire regulatory structure around a Madoff possibility.

The whole idea of the JOBS Act, of course, is that young companies shouldn't bear the full burden of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

I would really appreciate it if the Commission would, in fact, focus on nuance and getting us a more clear message...

I think this is a cultural genocide, just like we are experiencing religious and human genocide in the Middle East.

I actually voted for the JOBS Act. I had some misgivings, but in the end I thought it was a good compromise.

I thank you for the fact that the CFPB has returned $11 billion to 25 million consumers.

The kinds of predatory and inappropriate behavior that the CFPB has countered over the years are not difficult to understand.

I find myself puzzled by the incessant attacks on you and on your agency.

I have to respectfully disagree, and I think you yourself point out that actually in the Great Depression, which of course led to regulation which tamped down the cycle of boom and bust.