Andy Barr

I first want to commend Chairman Goodlatte and Congressman King and others who worked on H.R. 1215, the Protecting Access to Care Act, which aims to address the real problem of junk lawsuits in the context of medical care. Seventy-five…

I now yield to the gentleman from the First Congressional District of Kentucky, Congressman James Comer.

We are here tonight to honor the memory of a legendary Kentucky statesman, a baseball Hall of Famer, a man of this House, and a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great- grandfather, Senator Jim Bunning, who recently passed away at…

When you think about U.S. Senator Jim Bunning and when you think about his remarkable baseball career before politics, Jim Bunning could have gone anywhere and he could have done anything, but it is important to remember that those early…

The Dodd-Frank Act is a failure, period. It is estimated to reduce economic output by nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years, and it contains more regulatory restrictions than all of the other regulations enacted by the previous…

When former President Obama signed the Dodd- Frank financial control law into law about 7 years ago, supporters promised that it would repair the economy; they promised that it would end too big to fail; they promised it would enhance…

Why don't you provide relief to working Americans who need access to manufactured housing credit when the government's own data is telling you that your regulations are hurting low-income Americans?

They went and told you that they were going to go out of business and you ignored them.

I think the Bureau is taking an overly restrictive view of your administrative--certainly you exercise a whole lot of discretion to take away financial services and products from the American people.

I think you have the discretion to stop these rules that are contributing to the affordable housing crisis and making it harder for Americans, particularly in rural areas, to afford manufactured homes.

Why won't you provide relief to servicemembers and their families?

What is not a game is your agency denying vital financial services to servicemembers serving abroad from my commonwealth in communicating with their families back home.

I want you to revisit that. That is a request of you to revisit that rule to provide relief to these servicemembers.

American households are right to demand a more reliable governance structure for our Federal Reserve.

The previous Administration recklessly spent beyond our means, and instead of preserving monetary policy independence, it cajoled the Fed into fueling a Keynesian stimulus that promised more than it could ever deliver.

I wish that more financial institutions were as responsive to this body as the Bank has been.

As the World Bank's largest shareholder, the United States has a leading role in the Bank's governance.

According to the Kentucky Bankers Association, which I represent, the number of banks in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has dropped from 198 to 164 since the enactment of Dodd-Frank.

I just have to note, as the chairman of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee, that my friends on the other side of the aisle are blaming unconventional monetary policy for macroeconomic trends in this hearing.

I disagree. Almost 8 years out of recession, the absence of sound monetary policy continues to weigh on productivity growth and the economic opportunities it can offer to every American.

ObamaCare is collapsing. It is hurting more people than it is helping. It is forcing Americans to buy insurance they don't like, they don't need, and cannot afford. Premiums have increased by an average of 25 percent this year. Deductibles…

Last month, a hospital worker in Paducah, Kentucky, applied for a loan of $38,500 to finance a manufactured home. He had an 8 percent down payment. His monthly income was $2,200 per month--plenty to cover the all-in housing costs of $670…

Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the Securities and Exchange Commission--an agency not charged with the responsibility of carrying out American foreign policy--to promulgate a resource extraction issuer disclosure rule. That…

I appreciate the opportunity to speak in favor of this Congressional Review Act resolution on behalf of the thousands of fellow Kentuckians who have lost their jobs in the coal industry. In eastern Kentucky, not far from where I live, it…

I thank my friend, the gentleman from North Carolina, for his leadership not only of the Republican Study Committee as the new chairman--and I welcome you as the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee--but for his leadership on…