Andy Barr

I want to thank the gentleman, my colleague and friend, from West Virginia for his leadership in the Congressional Coal Caucus, to my colleagues from Pennsylvania and Ohio, and all over the country representing coal-producing States where…

As I mentioned, the Volcker Rule is forcing banks to divest of AAA paper that hasn't defaulted in 20 years.

I totally agree that competition, choice, and innovation is the best consumer protection.

the $50 billion asset threshold is arbitrary and unrealistically low.

I would encourage FSOC to look at consolidation, industry consolidation, as a problem, because it is exacerbating too-big-to-fail.

Community banks in my district, the bankers tell me that Dodd-Frank and the avalanche of compliance costs and red tape has really impacted their bottom line.

I thank the chairman for the opportunity to speak in favor of this important legislation for jobs, our economy, transparency, and accountability. Free trade is critical for my constituents in central and eastern Kentucky. More than half a…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for her leadership on this issue and partnership in supporting this important and critical mission of our military to make sure that the United States warfighter in combat has the most…

But I have heard from my constituents that the request to move the unexpended funds from one grantee in one Kentucky county to another less than an hour away has been denied.

I have heard from many of my constituents who are grantees of Continuum of Care, which is supposed to take care of our homeless population.

Oh, it certainly counts. I just think that our aspirations need to be much higher.

But I want to elaborate here a little bit.

Mr. Secretary, I appreciate your offer. I want to work with you on that to, again, help you make good on your commitment to make these dollars go further for the American taxpayer.

I thank the chairman for yielding. I rise today to echo the concerns expressed by my colleague across the aisle from Minnesota in concern for our Nation's warfighters and our military base. As you know, the FY15 NDAA authorized and the…

If we do not act now to ensure that the body armor industrial base is able to continue the development and manufacturing of more advanced lightweight body armor, there will not be a capable body armor industrial base left in the future to…

No one should be satisfied with our weak and unimpressive economic recovery.

This simple adjustment will enable financial institutions to return to their traditional business of relationship mortgage lending in their communities.

To my good friend from Maryland, Dr. Harris, just a quick response. We are talking about State-licensed programs where the law enforcement officials in Kentucky can identify permitted land where this hemp is grown. If it is on an…

In 2013, the Kentucky General Assembly passed Senate Bill 50, which exempted industrial hemp from the State's Controlled Substances Act but also mandated that Kentucky follow all Federal rules and regulations with respect to industrial…

The United States has the best, most environmentally-friendly, energy technology on the planet with respect to coal-fired power.

The program does indeed need reform, there are governance issues, and there is a lost capacity to monitor some of these insurance carriers.

Thank you for your forthrightness in acknowledging that there is a problem with the National Flood Insurance Program.

If we are moving people from dependency on the government to independent, self-sufficiency, that to me is success.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I want to thank the gentleman from Tennessee for his leadership on this very important issue, Mr. Fincher, for being a champion for affordability of housing and manufactured housing in particular. I…

I thank the chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit for yielding and for his support of this legislation. I also want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who have joined together to support…