Steve Lynch

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

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

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.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do want to point out that 130 countries right now, 90 percent of the world's central banks, are studying and doing research on digital currencies, and, in particular, government-backed digital…

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 want to pretend that this Congress is functioning, because it is not.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

I worry about some of the recent false narratives and fearmongering--much of which has been fueled by the crypto industry itself.

A CBDC is just one type of publicly-issued digital dollar and would be issued, backed, and regulated by the Federal Reserve.

It is important to correct some of the inaccurate and misleading claims that could lead us to shut down innovative policy approaches.

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.

this same Subcommittee on Weaponization has turned completely a blind eye to the actual and well-documented, blatant, and egregious weaponization of the Federal Government undertaken by the previous President

we are not investigating any actual Weaponization of the Federal Government. Worse yet, this Committee has come to embody weaponization itself

Chair Jordan has repeatedly sought to interfere and influence that case, threatening to subpoena Mr. Bragg

the drumbeat of attacks that I have seen against the men and women of the Department of Justice and the FBI

the Republican Members of this Committee have also followed the shameful example set by the former President in targeting the independent Federal law enforcement personnel

This blatant political intervention, not complained of at all by my Republican colleagues at the time, caused those prosecutors, some of them, to resign or withdraw from the case.