Andy Barr

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

I think it would be wise, given the fact that these are groups that are killing U.S. servicemembers, that Congress authorize the President to give him maximum authority and flexibility with respect to responding to those attacks.

The Filipino Coast Guard is specifically asking for more ships.

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

the status quo is unacceptable. It is stifling innovation.

I have introduced the Chinese Military and Surveillance Company Sanctions Act, which would direct the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to impose full blocking SDN sanctions.