"I think that if Congress actually takes its article on power seriously, which I think we should, we should go through and review a whole host of financial regulatory statutes."
"The one thing I would vehemently stress is we should not be assigning strict liability standards to any of these institutions."
"I think it is important to first note out for the record that the use of 'dark money', especially since 2020, has actually been dominated by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle."
"I do think that there are some levels of transparency that we need to find around this because we should not be using the civil litigation system to create policy that, frankly, belongs here in the ha..."
"But the one thing that was always clear about the people of Southwest Florida was their resiliency."
"But the level of devastation from flooding in particular is something that none of us really could understand the magnitude of."
"First of all, Chairman, I really want to thank you and Members of the Committee for coming down to Southwest Florida for this hearing."
"What would you recommend to Congress to essentially alleviate or to make it far more streamlined the regulatory burden you are under for making these disaster decisions?"
"I look forward to this hearing as we take an overall view of the efficiency and the effectiveness of the Federal Government's Hurricane Ian response."
"I really want to thank the Chairman for scheduling this hearing today to discuss with government officials from FEMA, from SBA, and from HUD, which are the three main Federal agencies that oversaw Hur..."
"When they were asked to leave their residences, their refrain to me and to a lot of local leaders was absolutely not, this is my home, and this storm has passed, and we are going to do everything we c..."