Andy Barr

I just want to note for the record that the chairwoman is for funding the police, and I just appreciate that.

Materiality must be preserved, but I want to point out that materiality is determined by investors' need for that information.

I applaud my good friend, Greg Meeks, for identifying this problem in his area in a more urban congressional district.

Today, I rise to honor the life of a devoted public servant, Ray Larson of Lexington, Kentucky. Ray served as assistant deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but later, for 32 years, Ray was one of the most…

We have talked about the solution. I also want to applaud my friend, Mr. Auchincloss, for identifying this in a more suburban district.

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his leadership and leading tonight's Special Order. As a member of both the HEAT Team and a member of the House Financial Services Committee, I want to address another dimension of the Biden…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 284.

But the cable did say the Afghan Government was at risk of collapse, and you said that the thoughts of the drafters reflected much of the thinking of the Department.

I warned you not to abandon Bagram.

Mr. Barr. And that warning came over 1 month before the fall of Kabul, right?

These were alarming cables. They were warnings. They were warnings to you.

Did you share that intelligence with the President?

We saw it too. We knew this was totally avoidable.

The Majority invited Secretary Fudge to testify before the committee almost 2 months ago, which was somewhat informative but gravely insufficient.

Yet, despite her direct responsibility for this bungled operation, Secretary Yellen has not testified before this committee.

I am concerned about the taxpayer. This self-attestation idea concerns me a lot.

the breathtaking incompetence that we see here and the waste and the delays and the open invitation for fraud is a direct indictment of expansion of the Federal welfare bureaucracy.

I am troubled that Secretary Yellen is not here to testify on this program.

We can't just continue to ask the taxpayers to subsidize people to live on the taxpayers' dime.

the solution to the Biden Administration's incompetence is not to dishonor taxpayers by making waste, fraud, and abuse in this program even easier.

Here we are today with another hearing on the same topic to discuss why less than 11 percent of the funds appropriated by Congress almost a year ago have been used.

I think we need to restore the Fed to be monetary policy only, and accountable.

With vaccines distributed and available and many lockdowns ended, taxpayers, I think, are asking the question, either this is too late because people now are working again, or it is not in time, because the moratorium on evictions is about…

Perhaps it is right that you are here all by yourself in your first appearance, but it is also right that Secretary Yellen should be here to testify, not just about the mismanagement of this programc, but also her statutorily-mandated…

I just think that this is the poster child for why hardworking taxpayers are so critical of big government, bureaucratic programs like that.