Andy Barr

Congress created the option.

The growth of student loan debt is indeed a crisis in our country.

I do think it is unconscionable the level of debt that so many young people today have to deal with.

We cannot address the higher education crisis without an honest conversation about the causes.

So you are paid less if the student goes into forbearance?

The Federal Government must become a more responsible lender.

If non-bank lenders become constrained, then guess what? Funding costs will go up.

I think it is--in order to gain the support that you want to reauthorize the Bank, when we are talking about competition with China, I think we need to have a clear-eyed policy with respect to supporting Chinese state-owned enterprises…

Over-regulation of CLOs would be an impediment to financial stability.

I thank Ranking Member McHenry for yielding. Mr. Chair, this legislation, H.R. 1500, the so-called Consumers First Act, neither puts consumers first nor puts in place the reforms that are needed to make the CFPB a stronger and more…

Wow. This is a program that is replete with waste, mismanagement, and poor performance.

Thank you for your leadership and for working with us to move that program forward as quickly as possible so that we can save lives and move folks out of recovery and into long-term jobs and an addiction-free life.

I appreciate the good work that you are doing, despite some of the criticism that you are receiving here today.

I applaud you and this Administration for breaking from the tired old past, the old ways of doing things...

What is working is the Trump economy. What is working is tax cuts and deregulation.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. And to our witnesses, thank you for your service and for working for the financial stability and safety and soundness of our financial system.

I just would encourage the Fed as it looks at this to not use profitability of U.S. banks with or conflating profitability with ensuring that capital requirements are appropriately calibrated.

It would be helpful to have a unified statement from all of the regulators clarifying that industrial hemp is different than marijuana.

I am running out of time. Let me just say it would be helpful to have a unified statement from all of the regulators clarifying that industrial hemp is different than marijuana.

We obviously de-scheduled in the Farm Bill but also we had pilot programs that were legal under Federal law in the 2014 Farm Bill.

Any other tools that we have in our arsenal that are not being used to put maximum pressure on North Korea, specifically secondary sanctions related to China?

I applaud the provisions in the draft that relate to the energy sector of Russia. I think they are probably overbroad.

We must continue to increase pressure on North Korea and ensure we have used all of our available tools.

Last Congress, I introduced the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act, which passed the House 415 to 2.

If this unanimous consent request cannot be entertained, I urge the Speaker and the majority leader to immediately schedule the born-alive bill so we can stand up and protect the sanctity of human life; and I would ask all others to join…