Bill Foster: “I am very concerned about the public health consequences of fighting this pandemic if we experience a surge in…”

Since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in 2011, it has served as the cop on the beat, protecting consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices.

Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis.

While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Federal Reserve Board.

I have no further speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, my draft number was 321. Being born in 1955, I never was called to serve, and I always wondered what my service would be like had I been called. I…