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Tom Emmer

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Tom Emmer is a U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district, having served since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Emmer has focused on various legislative efforts, particularly in the areas of economic development and healthcare. He has been an advocate for policies aimed at promoting job growth and improving access to healthcare services for his constituents. Emmer has also been involved in discussions surrounding fiscal responsibility and government spending.

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Apr 17, 2024

One of the greatest hockey coaches of all time, Herb Brooks, once said: ``Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.'' I…

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Feb 13, 2024

Digital assets were not even a popular tool for Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, correct?

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Feb 13, 2024

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and I want to thank Chairman McHenry for holding this important hearing today.

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Feb 13, 2024

Treasury must do a better job with all the data it has to paint an accurate narrative of digital assets and not perpetuate a false one.

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Jan 9, 2024

This action wasn't about regulation or consumer protection; it was about killing an entire industry the Administration doesn't like.

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Jan 9, 2024

This is why since my first term in office I have fought for accountability and transparency.

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Jan 9, 2024

the Financial Stability Oversight Council has morphed into a political weapon for the administrative state.

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Dec 14, 2023

No one has worked harder to help House Republicans win back the majority and deliver on our conservative, commonsense agenda than Kevin McCarthy. As the son of a firefighter, Kevin learned the values of grit, determination, and courage…

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Dec 5, 2023

Crafting a farm bill that addresses all the pressures farm families and the agriculture industry face is no easy task.

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Dec 4, 2023

The court said the SEC is adopting its litigation positions to further its desired goal and not out of faithful allegiance to the law.

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Nov 8, 2023

I appreciate our friend from Maryland and his comments, and I do want to point out that he is absolutely correct. The concerns here are bipartisan concerns. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an issue about the digital…

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Nov 8, 2023

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

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Nov 8, 2023

Regulation by enforcement is a practice all too common with this administration. This is particularly the case at the SEC and Chair Gary Gensler's approach toward our capital markets and financial services industry but especially with our…

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Oct 3, 2023

Kevin McCarthy has earned this. Under Speaker McCarthy's leadership, our House Republican majority has actually defied all odds and overperformed expectations again and again and again. It all started with the Speaker's race when our…

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Sep 26, 2023

I am convinced you are not an impartial regulator. Instead, it is clear that you are working to consolidate your own power.

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Sep 26, 2023

I believe our great financial system is the definition of freedom in this country, and congressional policies must provide room for the traditional financial system to evolve alongside the disruptive digital asset ecosystem.

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Sep 13, 2023

We must develop digital tools that function like cash.

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Sep 13, 2023

The need to protect Americans' right to financial privacy is at an all-time high.

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Jun 12, 2023

This Administration weaponized the recent bank crisis to de-bank the digital asset community, deploying an Operation Choke Point-style assault on this legal industry.

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Jun 12, 2023

The answer is easy: It is, no. Since President Biden took office, the average real personal income has only increased 2.4 percent.

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Jun 12, 2023

Unless Americans have gotten a 15.3-percent pay raise in the last 2 years, they have effectively gotten a pay cut.

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Jun 12, 2023

Crypto will thrive with or without the United States. What we seek to do today in discussing this draft is to establish if the next iteration of the internet is going to be designed by Americans, and for Americans, or if it is going to…

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Jun 12, 2023

American digital asset innovators and entrepreneurs desperately need regulatory clarity, regulatory certainty, regulatory confidence, and regulatory competitiveness, the four C's.

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Jun 12, 2023

American families pay an average of $864 more per month today than they did when this Administration started.

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