The elephant in the room is whether you are going to be renominated for a second term as Fed chair. Renominating you means gambling that the next five years with a Republican chair who has regularly voted to deregulate Wall Street won`t…

Look, you remember what happened in the early 2000s. And that is we had Federal Reserve that was unwilling to rein the giant financial institutions. So a bit at a time they deregulate here, they turn a blind eye there. And those financial…

I appreciate your looking at it as a fighter. But I would also add one more year of propping up a corrupt government and an army that would not fight on its own would not give us a better outcome, and anyone who thinks differently is…

That it was actually an amazing undertaking. It was done under chaotic circumstances because the government had collapsed, because the party had melted away the Afghan army and that even in the midst of all of that, our military was able…

I will oppose your renomination.

Your job, the Fed's job, members of Congress' job is to serve the public, not their stock portfolios.

So today I want to talk about three instances of that and ask you to think about them in hindsight.

Chair Powell, do you regret weakening the stress test?

We cannot play politics with the full faith and credit of the United States.

We cannot declare the recovery complete until all workers can find a job that pays them fair wages and treats them with dignity.

The debt limit is not about future spending. It is about meeting obligations we have already made.