Jim Himes

I mean, read the indictment of Donald Trump, read the special counsel's report, and you will see that Joe Biden handled this radically different in every way, cooperated, a day after we were just talking about Israel, a day after the…

We cannot have classified information out in the wild, and that applies to a, you know, junior airman in Cape Cod who was responsible for a brutal release of classified. It applies to a present United States and to an expert in United…

The idea that he is going to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza is just not credible.

The prime minister has been extremely aggressive. You don't -- on the one hand, you don't blame him for being aggressive considering the horror that were visited on his country on October 7.

The next two months, next two-and-a-half months need to look very different from the last two-and-a-half months. There are now some 28,000, 27,000 fatalities in Gaza. That just can't continue.

I think we in the U.S. sort of tend to dismiss these issues out of hand because we haven't been bombed the way that Ukraine has been.

We are in a world of confusion here. We saw a Governors' vote that was split.

If we could codify a definition of, 'insider trading,' and reduce some of the risk of overturning of case-made law, that might, in the long run, simplify your task and create confidence in the markets, correct?

I am a believer in this idea that if we are going to send somebody to jail, we should be very clear about why we are doing that.

We are going to shut down the government because of some MAGA extremists.

My Republican colleagues seem to have called this hearing to promote the idea that regulations represent a lack of political independence by the agencies.

We cannot allow Americans to lose their retirement savings because acknowledging the realities of climate change has been overshadowed by partisan politics.

The threat of political influence on our financial regulators is real, and climate change does pose systemic risk to our nation's financial system.

One party here is running an entire Presidential campaign premised on the notion--talk to Disney--that the government should bludgeon corporations into their philosophical framework.

The State of Texas is losing millions of dollars because of this anti-woke crusade.

This is a crisis, and you know what we do in a crisis? We mobilize as a government.

Now, my colleague, Mr. Norman, doesn't feel that way. I am wondering about our witnesses here.

The government had to step in, just as it did when I was a freshman in this institution, to rescue the banking sector.

Is that a free market thing for the government at the State of Texas level or at the Federal level to be saying, we are angry about your wokeness?

'For convenience,' should be tightened up.

I don't mean to provoke here, but I have read this 10 times now and it says that, 'for convenience,' is the one condition that must be met for commingling to occur.

The gentleman from Connecticut, Mr. Himes, who is also the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is recognized for 5 minutes.

The Biden Administration and Democrats have shown what happens when you deliver legislation that puts working families first.

I am trying to get out what you said, a policy that is statesmanlike in its orientation, drawing on your experience as an economist.

I hope that you will really double down on the government's interaction with and encouragement to the World Bank to be what it should be through Mr. Banga.