Thank you, Chairman Barr, thank you to our witnesses for being here today, and thank you to our regulators for appropriately and thoughtfully responding to the changing risk profiles of our financial systems.
Bill Foster
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Bill Foster is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district, a position he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Foster has focused on issues such as science, technology, and economic development during his tenure in Congress. He has a background in physics and has worked in the private sector, including founding a successful technology company.
Even the, 'Ebenezer Scrooge investor,' needs information about the effect of global warming on earnings per share.
If we don't provide them with the information they want, many of them will invest in European companies that do provide that information.
What would this mean in the context of running a political campaign? What if we said that any contribution of under $2,000 cannot be accepted by a campaign?
We are told that these considerations are fringe or immaterial, and there are those who say that it is material only if it is 5 percent of earnings per share.
We on this committee remain committed to alleviating the financial stress on everyday Americans to pay rent and get food on the table.
In the wake of what seemed to be endless novel problems and disruption, I believe the Fed and Congress have done a reasonable job given the cards that we have been dealt.
But it is still a struggle. If you look at all the money we attempted to inject into Afghanistan, and it just disappeared in corruption.
Yes, I understand. It just seems like there may be an acceptable bargain here that, yes, we will provide a tremendous amount of assistance for those who are willing to go back to Ukraine and rebuild the country.
In regards to the debt limit, there has been some uncertainty expressed as to how the exact language of the debt limit law applies to the different forms of debt...
the ultimate solution to this is just to get rid of the debt limit. This is a ridiculous rule that we make up for ourselves.
I have introduced, along with Senators Van Hollen and Schatz, the End the Threat of Default Act, which simply repeals the debt limit.
The obvious solution to this threat to our economy is for the U.S. to join the rest of the world and simply repeal the debt limit. For years, I have been introducing legislation to do just that. House Republicans now insist that they want…
As Congress' physicist and computer chip designer, I rise to make this simple point, that the massive levels of UI fraud and identity fraud generally did not happen in countries that have a secure and trusted digital ID system. This is…
I do believe that there should be a rough proportionality between the number of rulemakings and the number of good ideas.
What we have learned is that we now have to reinforce our banking system against bank runs that can occur at the speed of the internet.
This will require stronger emergency liquidity provisions to banks under attack, and it has to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Had we followed Congress' direction to include contingent capital in the stacks of U.S. large banks, we would have been able to resolve the SVB without hitting the Deposit Insurance Fund.
we have spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?
we spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?
On rollcall No. 138 for H.R. 140, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``aye''. As a strong supporter of unions, I oppose the Perry/Foxx amendment, and I intended to vote ``no.'' Amendment No. 6 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. The…





