For the past 4 years, I have been working on the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, designed to try to move us in the direction of a negotiated settlement with North Korea. The war stopped, or seemed to have stopped, in 1953, but that was…

Due to redistricting just last year, I now represent what I believe is the largest veterans' facility in the West, the West Los Angeles VA. I have seen exemplified in my own district a problem in large quantity that should strike at the…

Last month, the United Nations Security Council had a moment of silence in memory of the death of the late Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, known as the Butcher of Tehran. Even on the Senate floor, the Senate Chaplain said something…

I congratulate the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, known as VICA, for 75 years of working tirelessly to make the San Fernando Valley the place to do business in California. VICA serves 1.8 million residents, nearly a quarter…

There is substantial discussion of cryptocurrencies. It was one of the things that I agreed with Donald Trump on when he tweeted in 2019, back when he was on Twitter: ``I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not…

The ICC's ruling is outrageous. The organization has dishonored itself. I would have been happy to cosponsor a resolution denouncing and sanctioning. I wanted to cosponsor this bill when I read the title; unfortunately, I read the bill…

This was not a pro-Israel bill. Instead it was a poorly drafted, rush-to-the-floor, strictly partisan messaging bill that distracts the world from the hypocrisy of the ICC and focuses us instead on a supposedly pro-Israel, performatively…

Had I been present, I would have voted No on Roll Call No. 228. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Davidson The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 3, printed in part C of House Report…

We have a bill, which if it is interpreted as written, blocks the American economy the way it operates today and has for decades and would create lots of American jobs building those armored cars because the Fed would have to deal with…

Today the gross hypocrisy of crypto advocates is exposed. For several years, they were screaming: Don't touch crypto because it is innovative, and innovation is wonderful, and innovation shouldn't be stopped and if we don't innovate other…

We are told to reject this because China is doing this. In China, they drink orange juice. Should we prohibit orange juice? Not everything that happens in China needs to be banned by statute in this Congress. We are told we need to protect…

You have to understand how important it is. We, frankly, are not fiscally responsible in this House. We don't collect nearly as much in taxes as we spend in benefits. We are able to do that without too much harm because of the role of the…

This amendment illustrates the problem. A commodity other than a digital commodity, but any commodity can become a digital commodity, or you can have a contract or a derivative tied to the physical commodity that now becomes a digital…

This amendment gives the illusion that it prevents the bill from being useful to our foreign adversaries when, in fact, we see Iran using crypto to avoid sanctions, North Korea profiting from crypto, and Hamas raising huge amounts of money…

Last week we had police week. This week, the Republicans show us that they support crime in the suites. The effect of this bill in the short term will be to disempower the most effective investor protection crime investigation organization…

My pro-Israel efforts began long before my 28 years on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and I believe that my pro- Israel record is as long and as strong as any Member of this House. I rise to oppose this pseudo pro-Israel bill. It purports…

The crypto industry comes before our committee almost every week saying: We want clarity. Then the SEC provides the clarity. Now, the friends of crypto are here to abolish the clarity, to not only take away release 121, which requires that…

Over the past 8 weeks, my friends, Ken and Rowan, have peddled 3,500 miles across this country to address the national homeless crisis and to raise funds to provide homes. Founded 15 years ago in the San Fernando Valley, Hope the Mission…

I see no reason for us to hide from those who are looking at bank balance sheets the unique risk that they take in order to facilitate a crypto ecosystem whose sole purpose and whose strategy is to defeat the American Government whether it…

I want to focus on the 40 percent of this bill that gets little or no attention. It provides $9.1 billion in humanitarian aid, and that aid is un-earmarked. So at a hearing last week, I got the administration to go on record as to where…

You have literally bet your house on an investment that is of a type that is risky and where you get less information and where the investment is illiquid. That is not good investor protection. What this amendment does is it says, yes, we…

In the debate on the bill in chief, the chair of the full committee correctly criticized the definition of accredited investor as it occurs under current law. Accredited investor is an important concept in securities law because, Madam…

Let me respond to those comments. The underlying bill acknowledges the fact that the government puts some restrictions on how much of your net worth you can put into one of these unregulated, risky, low-information, illiquid investments…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 38, strike line 21 and all that follows through page 39, line 6 and insert the following: ``(iii) with…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 14. ____________________