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Bill Huizenga is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Huizenga has focused on issues such as economic development, job creation, and fiscal responsibility during his time in office. He has been involved in various legislative efforts and has served on multiple committees, contributing to discussions on national security and local economic issues.
I appreciate the work that my chairman has done. I chair the Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee, the subcommittee that has jurisdiction directly over this. In the last conference when I was vice chair of that committee, we started a…
I thank the chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to come back up here to talk again a little bit about this process. We were starting to talk about what had happened through the committee. There is a work group that was put together both…
I appreciate that, and I appreciate the leadership of my chair on this issue. It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, we have two issues that we are dealing with today: First is the issue, itself, of the Export-Import Bank and the entitlement…
What I would like to do is recognize myself for a brief question, and then we can go to you for a second round, if that is okay with our witnesses?
I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, as I was saying, the intent and the spirit of the rule makes a lot of sense. Having something that is going to negatively impact those home buyers, especially those first-time home buyers, is not…
This can only be characterized as an unprecedented Big Government grab of individual financial records.
I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, especially my friend, Chairman Chaffetz, and my friend, Mr. Walberg, here from Michigan, as well as Ranking Member Cummings, for…
I am a little flabbergasted by Mr. Gupta, who believes that somehow just because Congress created the CFPB that somehow the CFPB is accountable to it.
It strikes me that the question we really need to have is, 'To what end and to what benefit? And who is this benefitting?'
It seems to me that part of our problem here is not intentions, but it is ability to execute. What we have done is we have replaced the private sector. We have replaced the innovators, the people that are getting stuff done in our economy…
If the chairman will yield, I have got a question for you--because I have had an experience in my time. This is my third term here in Congress, and I have had a little bit of an experience that was bothersome to me. I want to know if this…
I want to relay a little experience I had just today. I was speaking in front of a group of European Parliament members, a few European business folks; and this question was brought up about trying to harmonize our financial services laws…
Certainly, the gentleman from Arizona is not implying that they are not well intended.
I used to be a licensed Realtor, and I will never forget that time in the late nineties when I went to my first closing, where they slid a check, the closing agent slid a check across to the seller, as is expected. They are selling their…
I know we have probably got about 3 or 4 minutes before a quick hour has gone by here, but I go back to my intention here and the question I have got for the chairman. Obviously, a lot of well-intentioned things. Were there some issues and…
I appreciate your leadership on this and so many other issues. I am going to have a couple of questions for you in a minute because I, like my colleague and friend from Arizona, wasn't here when Dodd-Frank was created. I like to say I…
You just hit on the word ``compromise.'' I think there are many of us that are looking to compromise. I was disturbed--and I am curious to hear the thoughts of my colleague from Arizona as well about this--when we were sitting in committee…
I have to disagree a little bit with you. We know that there is a tremendous amount of Dodd-Frank that we have seen play out, but this is something I am not sure everybody understands. They are still writing the rules; 5 years into it, we…
I see these bills as important steps towards responsible oversight and a pro-growth economy.
I, too, thank my friend and colleague from Wisconsin for his leadership on this and so many others. Mr. Speaker, I just wish the American people could be here on this floor right now and feel the passion, the frustration--honestly, the…
An independent Federal Reserve, a monetary authority that is not subject to the tender mercies of this institution is a cornerstone of our economy.
The Federal Reserve has gone above and beyond its original mission statement.
I think we share a respect for rules-based monetary policy--as you put it when you served on the Fed Board in the mid-1990s, the Taylor Rule was 'what sensible central banks do.'
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