Andy Barr

This committee, and the select committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are working collaboratively in a bipartisan way on an outbound investment screening legislative package.

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.

The rhetoric from the other side in this hearing has been unacceptable.

My Republican colleagues have proven that they have the capability to turn imaginary problems into real problems.

We know who is paying their fair share and who is not.

What we think you are doing here by assessing higher fees on higher-credit borrowers is you are actually contradicting the statutory mandate to advance safety and soundness, and you are putting taxpayers at risk.

I do want to revisit the issue of the policy recommendations of more regulations, but I also want to ask why the report, your report, says nothing that I can see about monetary policy mistakes?

How is he paying the CFPB's bills?

What happened was that in 2017 China-sourced fentanyl by weight accounted for 165 kilograms of the total 171 kilograms seized from the international mail.

This amendment will add additional clarity to my bill ensuring that it is targeted to any national emergency regarding international drug trafficking.

It is time to get tough on China and sanction the entities that are the source of this poison and this chemical weapon killing our people.

Fentanyl is a scourge that affects all of our communities and today's markup is an opportunity to pass meaningful legislation to combat it.

Going soft on China is not politicizing the issue--or going hard on China is not politicizing the issue.

Tacitly supports aspects of international drug trafficking by looking the other way as it does with the fentanyl trade

Despite warnings from my Republican colleagues and myself, the Federal Reserve was late to the game in responding to inflation.

Following the bipartisan CARES Act, a partisan, reckless, nearly-$2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act was enacted by the President, which fueled runaway inflation.

Because of economic mismanagement under the Biden Administration, and failures of bank supervision, we now face increased odds of recession.

Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine, it is not just about supporting the Ukrainian resistance and the sovereignty of Ukraine as a nation and as a people.

Yesterday, you mentioned that you first heard about SVB's interest risk and liquidity management issues back in February of this year.

I believe it is in the national security interest of the United States to provide assistance to the resistance in Ukraine to repel the Russian invaders.

I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of the fentanyl crisis in my district and across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The most-recent drug overdose report from the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy reported that there was a 14.5 percent increase in overdose deaths in my home State.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Thank you for your leadership, and thank you to Chairman Luetkemeyer for holding this hearing.

The CFPB's funding mechanism is unconstitutional.

This denies Congress the use of its most powerful oversight tool, the power of the purse.