Andy Barr: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And as my friend, Mr. Meeks, focused on urban banking deserts, let me ask a few questions about…”

I would just say to my friend from California that former Speaker Henry Clay, who was famous for bringing barrels of white oak filled with Kentucky whiskey up to the Capitol Building, used to famously say that Kentucky bourbon could…

Reducing the efficiency of bank M&A can be a deterrent to healthy bank transactions. It can reduce the effectiveness of M&A activity that preserves the presence of community banks in underserved areas, prevent institutions from pursuing…

Today in America, freedom is under attack. A growing powerful left-wing woke socialist and crazy ideology is on the march. If we let it, it will come to Kentucky. And my fellow Republicans, I will not let it.

I rise today to honor a Kentucky hero, Chief Herbert D. Proffitt, and his son, Jeff Proffitt, who has worked tirelessly to ensure his father's sacrifice is never forgotten. Chief Proffitt served our Nation in Korea and then protected the…