Steve Lynch

I, along with Mr. Bost, propose to amend the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA)...

This project would help secure reliable water supply in the City and reduce public safety risks in the event of an earthquake or fire.

This project is a sound investment and will ensure that San Juan Bautista residents have access to safe water resources.

We have a lot of restraints on us that other governments do not, and I am just very worried that we are going to forfeit any opportunity.

I see a lot more danger there than I think I have heard represented on this panel.

There is not a good ending to that story if we allow that to happen.

I just see us in a competition, you know, and I know China right now has full spectrum surveillance of its entire population.

In December 2023, the Biden Administration finalized a rule to ensure that large-scale Federal construction projects have PLAs in place.

In June, the House Republican leadership brought us to the verge of a catastrophic default on our national debt.

The only reason the recent Speaker got elected is because he had the distinct quality that no one really knew him.

I'm old enough to remember a Republican President who stood up--stood up--to Russian dictators, not sucked up to Russian dictators.

I dare say, that is what the Republican leadership is involved in in this Committee.

And now there was a two or 3 weeks ago, we had a North Korean--a similar operation where a North Korean connected attackers injected, again, malicious code into a widely distributed software component in multiple applications, and we are…

I wanted to just get some of your thinking behind that on how big does a fintech firm need to be before they would come under this reporting.

As I said, Mr. Chairman, more than 130 countries and 90 percent of the world's central banks are exploring their own government-backed digital currencies. We should not be suppressing innovative approaches without fully evaluating its…

I don't believe that consumers should have to pay to access wages that they have already earned in that system.

We are losing the faith of the people that we represent.

We should not divert any energy or attention away from getting a Speaker so this government can begin to function again.

I don't want to pretend that this Congress is functioning, because it is not.

Then--so that, I believe, hurts his credibility, does it not?

Is there a reason--the other question is, why has not Rudy Giuliani--if he is such a key witness and was on the ground...

What we have here is a lot of allegations. I have heard about, you know, emails from Hunter Biden from China...

I think we have an area here, Mr. Chairman, where we can actually work together and have some bipartisanship, I dare say, on this.

In a previous Congress, I was actually the Chair of the Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, where we conducted an extensive investigation into the role of pharmacy benefit managers.

While concerns about data privacy and government surveillance are real, especially in countries that do not respect human rights and privacy, a CBDC does not have to be designed that way.