Andy Barr

I represent Marines who were at HKIA. They know what the Taliban were doing and planning to do to our Afghan allies that we abandoned.

Are the Taliban actively giving aid, and comfort, and assistance to terrorists?

So, my question is, why would the Administration want to exclude the Taliban from an AUMF?

I am really worried that Basel III Endgame and all of your regulatory proposals would lead to a death by a thousand cuts for commercial real estate.

Most American investors find all of the Scope 3 emissions nonsense and immaterial.

You are trying to, 'Scarlet Letter,' fossil energy.

Requiring Scope 3 emissions will lead to wildly inaccurate and immaterial disclosures that will be of little practical use to investors.

With all due respect, Mr. Chairman, if the U.S. capital markets are a gold medalist, you are the Tonya Harding of securities regulation because you are kneecapping the U.S. capital markets with the avalanche of red tape coming out of your…

I am deeply concerned about this, and I will be following up with your office with additional questions, and I expect a written response.

Your assurance that your increased focus on climate-related financial risk will not discourage lending by banks to legal businesses certainly looks to us, some of us, like a distinction without a difference.

I am sorry to say, perpetuates concerns that regulators focused on climate-related financial risk will, in fact, politicize credit allocation, assurances notwithstanding.

Just because we have that power doesn't mean that it is our obligation to use it.

It is a tremendous responsibility. It is a tremendous duty. I still pinch myself every day that I get to do this.

We believe the anti-ESG bills are anti-free market and anti-free enterprise.

I co-led legislation with Congressman Waltz to fast-track U.S. weapons sales to India.

We have long cautioned Pakistan about. And, we have said buyer beware.

The party of Ronald Reagan, the party of Milton Friedman, is afraid to defend capitalism.

I don't understand why anyone would say this is about assessing climate risk. Increasing energy prices does not stabilize the economy.

If ESG is capitalism, why do we need the government to interfere in the free market?

It is kind of like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 when he was asked to describe his test for obscenity. He said, 'I know it when I see it.'

The practice of name-and-shame first, verify later, isn't consumer protection. It is McCarthyism.

You vilify entire industries simply because they are politically unsavory, in your opinion.

Unfortunately, under your leadership, the CFPB is doing the exact opposite.

The status quo is unacceptable. It is stifling innovation.

I would ask Treasury to consider your already well-informed view that the banking system is already well-capitalized as you review the Fed's work.