Steve Lynch

We want to bring that home.

Look, LIHEAP, the reason we have to give people low income--excuse me, low-cost heating oil is because a lot of poor folk have oil-fired furnaces, right? That is why we are doing that.

This idea of firing 50,000 civil servants and replacing them with his own little army of extreme conservatives should be something that concerns all of us.

We know he wants to wipe out civil servants' legal protections.

He talks about draining the swamp, yet he is the swamp.

I introduced a bipartisan bill, the Saving the Civil Service Act, which would require any President must seek the approval of Congress before significantly expanding the accepted service in the civil service.

Returning to the spoils system is a bad idea for America.

The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants and replace them with political appointees and sycophants.

I strongly supported the independent investigations years ago of operations conducted by the ATF.

I do not agree with the ad hominem attacks on our ATF agents and law enforcement personnel.

Trump was President in 2019 when he threatened to withhold aid to the Ukrainians as they were being threatened by the Russians.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Califf, welcome. Thank you for your good work.

An investor is entitled to that information, and that has long been the practice.

The traditional role of the SEC and a central tenet of our securities laws aims to protect investors.

Thank you for your relentless leadership on this issue.

$60 billion in the President's budget for Ukraine, 90 percent of that will be spent in the United States.

The Oversight Committee's job is to oversee how that foreign aid gets spent.

Through the FATF recommendations, we have the ability to project our anti-money laundering and terrorist financing standards on other countries.

I want to remind people, he's sitting in prison. That's why he can't be here today. He's sitting in prison for scamming workers' pensions. I mean, how low can you get?

The goal here and the statutory direction for the CFPB was we were trying to provide a single point of accountability for enforcing Federal consumer financial laws in protecting consumers in the financial marketplace.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be postponed. Amendment No. 9 Offered by Ms. Waters The Acting CHAIR. It…

Very briefly, Madam Chair, I would just add that in this bill there are several preemption provisions that prevent State regulators from actually doing their jobs, and that is problematic. They are, in many cases, elected officials. They…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 30 seconds remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, before line 1, insert the following: SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act and the amendments made by…

The singular mission of this so-called Subcommittee on Weaponization and the House Republican leadership is to be the proliferation or, ironically, the weaponi-zation of false narratives for political purposes.