"Now it sounded to me like the majority here is for independence, which is a code word for secrecy and in opposition to transparency."
"So transparency, how can you be against transparency? But I believe the Congress would be more effective in its oversight of the Federal Reserve if it concentrated much more on outcomes and much less ..."
"Didn't you find out that we are not supposed to do that around here? We don't have that much concern about it."
"The Fed is a government unto itself. You know, they hire and make their wages and it doesn't go through the ordinary process."
"To functionally create a commission of consumer punishment, not consumer protection, this is an original idea, it is an originally bad idea."
"Some people seem to be asserting that our citizens are incapable of managing their own risk..."
"I am not sure why we need to pass a bill giving the Fed even more power that it already has."
"I do not believe that we should pass any legislation that would de-incentivize States and localities from reigning in their bloated budgets."
"I find it awfully frustrating at times when we always talk about inflation and we only talk about prices."
"To me there is a lot of inflation out there. It is already inflated. We are in the midst of inflation."
"This has been the prediction of the free market economists, and yet we continue down this path of socializing our entire economy."
"Interventionism and inflationism fail because we don't have a free market pricing system of money."