Rand Paul

I personally believe that over these many decades, the Federal Reserve has gotten a free pass.

This amendment doesn't change any of the postal mandates and, to tell my colleagues the truth, the system we have now is not working very well. I think we do need some innovation, so I think it would be a good idea to vote for this…

At a time when we are asking post offices and people around our country to suffer the loss of their local post office, I think the very least we can do is show we are willing to give up some of the post offices around here. We have seven…

But in the process, the question really is: Who gets stuck with it?

Other times, governments and central banks participate in liquidating debt by diminishing real debt.

Who gets stuck with the debt? Who gets the bailout?

The crisis we face right now is a crisis in debt and how we handle this debt.

Can the U.S. dollar and the U.S. economy and the U.S. taxpayer bear the burden?

Yes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from California. Amendment No. 1816

Are you concerned about the propriety of giving money, $500 million, to a billionaire, you know, and then sort of changing the rules some so he gets to, you know, maybe get a better deal than taxpayers do?

It looks unseemingly, and I do not think that is your background.

Do we give loans to foreign companies?

That is sort of troubling, though, that they were the best case scenario and had met all the criteria best, and then they went bankruptcy.

This is about crony capitalism. This is not about starting up solar panels.

I would not think--I mean, this seems to be so myopic as to be politically motivated.

If you knew that in BrightSource somebody that used to work for the Kennedy family companies now works in the Department of Energy and approved the $1.8 billion loans, does that send up red flags?

You know what their profit? Their loss? They lost $13.5 million.

I find that very, very curious.

I think that is something we need to look into as well.

I want to point out we are strong supporters of Mr. Wolf's bill to bring American jobs home.

I think it is a great idea and that we need more of that.

Thank you Senator Sanders, Senator Paul, and members of the subcommittee for holding this hearing today.

But to do it, you would have to repeal the legal tender laws. You would have to legalize this.

Yes, they have been debasing currencies for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and it always ends badly.

The Federal Reserve is a creature of the Congress, and if we don't know what the Fed is doing, we have the authority...