Andy Barr

I thank the chairman for yielding. I rise today in support of the Congressional Review Act resolution to disapprove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2013 auto finance guidance. The Dodd-Frank financial control law explicitly…

We need longer-term help. I agree with you. Totally agree with you.

In light of the declaration of a national public health emergency announced by President Trump last fall, there is a pressing need for additional transitional housing for opioid recovery.

We all know that the opioid epidemic is a major health crisis that has impacted every community and every Congressional district.

This is a draft bill for a reason. We want feedback from people on the front lines like you.

Thank you, Chairman Duffy and Ranking Member Cleaver, for holding this important hearing.

There needs to be that longer term.

regulation should support and promote financial system efficiency just as much as regulation should support safety and soundness.

I thank the chairman for the recognition and the author of this legislation, Mr. Zeldin, for his leadership on the Stress Test Improvement Act, which I strongly support. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Reserve administers two stress tests that…

I appreciate that we have leadership at the Bureau now that is actually working for our men and women in uniform, and not against them.

I have consistently, year after year, term after term, introduced the TABS Act, Taking Account of Bureaucrats' Spending Act.

There is a desperate need for a fundamental overhaul of the structure of this agency to make it much more accountable.

I appreciate your candid and refreshing testimony today, which continues to expose the breathtaking lack of accountability of the agency that you are now charged to lead.

The Bureau's role, as it turns out, created a tremendous amount of paperwork for credit unions, and slowed down the process.

That made it harder for active-duty military personnel--especially those who served at Fort Knox and who were deployed overseas.

This is particularly concerning because our State-chartered banks provide about 75 percent of the lending in rural America and about half of all the U.S. lending nationwide. As you can see, with fewer community financial institutions due…

I have no further requests for time, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Barr) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R…

Let me once again thank the gentleman from Illinois for his tireless advocacy on behalf of our community financial institutions and providing some commonsense, basic relief to those institutions so that, instead of dealing with paperwork…

I am pleased to yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren), the sponsor of the legislation and the vice chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investments.

As a Member of Congress representing a State that has been ravaged by heroin and opioid addiction, I can't think of a more important thing for this Congress to do than to develop a national strategy for combating these transnational gangs…

And I rise today in support of H.R. 4725, the Community Bank Reporting Relief Act. Community banks were hit hard by the Great Recession and the ensuing regulations. Numerous bankers have told me they are spending more and more money and…

This deprives Congress of its most important oversight tool, the power of the purse

My personal view is that the structure of this Bureau is unconstitutional.

one of the most important powers of Congress enumerated in the Constitution is the power of the purse

I believe in independence of the Fed, particularly with respect to monetary policy.