Andy Barr

I join the ranking member's view that you have earned another term.

But count me as someone who is a skeptic that increasing bank capital requirements or punishing lenders for not redlining energy companies is the way to go about it.

It becomes clear that this effort is not about managing financial stress, but it is really about causing financial stress, specifically to those companies and industries that are politically unpopular.

These efforts will just disrupt the supply side by shifting financing for those industries to less-regulated non-bank lenders, drive up the cost of capital, and raise prices for consumers.

The point I want to highlight is that the former Acting Comptroller was making the point that disapproving the OCC's true lender rule will constrain a future Comptroller's ability to address the true lender issue and limit the OCC's…

I thank my friend from Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 1187, with all due respect to my good friends from California and Illinois. We have enjoyed a robust discussion and debate on this, which I would argue is a…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 207, nays 218, not voting 5, as…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 215, nays 214, not voting 2, as…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Barr of Kentucky moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1187 to the Committee on Financial Services…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, once again, the bill we have been considering today is puzzling for Republicans, as it probably is for a large number of my Democratic friends as well. On the one hand, the far left seeks to…

Unfortunately, Representative Andy Barr's wife, Carol, who was 39 years old at the time, went to her doctor.

We have a terrible addiction crisis in this country, and in my home State of Kentucky that is the root cause of much of this homelessness...

I believe deepening trade ties with Taiwan is important to countering Chinese malign influence.

Thank you for responding favorably to my letter to you that was signed by over 60 of my colleagues requesting vaccines for Taiwan.

the U.S. Government is not operating concentration camps, not engaged in extrajudicial detention, collective punishment, guilt by association, systematic torture and rape, medications inducing infertility/impaired mental function, torture…

I join my colleagues in condemning the junta and the Tatmadaw's military coup, the unlawful detention of the State councilor, declaration of martial law and the human rights abuses against civil disobedience and peaceful protesters.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And as my friend, Mr. Meeks, focused on urban banking deserts, let me ask a few questions about rural banking deserts.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and as I listen to the conversation it just occurs to me that nobody here seems to recognize that we have maxed out the credit card.

I fear the toxic cocktail of massive deficit spending, when we had $1 trillion of funding still unspent from last year, increasing risk of inflation, higher long-term interest rates, and unprecedented accommodative monetary policy that I…

Once again, we are reminded of the dangers that law enforcement face every single day, and January 6 was one of those days. Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the family of Brian Sicknick, a true hero to our country, a great…

I have no further speakers at this time, and I am prepared to close.

I do detect a paternalistic hostility to what I consider to be the foundation of our free markets...

It is such an important issue.

After enactment of five bipartisan COVID relief bills last year totaling $4 trillion in assistance for healthcare workers, businesses, schools, testing, and vaccines, with over $1 trillion in already appropriated funds still unspent, with…

After a divisive election season, allegations of election fraud, objections to the electoral college, and impeachment, a friend of mine on the other side of the aisle recently asked what it would take to unify our country. My answer is…