Tom Emmer

Here is the reality. Prices are through the roof. Gas is up. Groceries are up. Housing is up.

It is clear that today's hearing is nothing more than the Majority's attempt to use institutional investors as a scapegoat.

Is it true that regulatory barriers at a local level are impeding or are partly to blame for the problem with the housing supply across the country?

Again, as I mentioned in my opening statement, inflation is at 8.6 percent and Americans actually need solutions right now.

Listen, over the past few months my Democrat colleagues continue to find a scapegoat for inflation.

Today, Americans are being punched in the face with 8.6 percent inflation.

We need to put ourselves on a strict spending diet.

We are knowingly walking toward an even worse inflation, a recession and, God forbid, food shortages.

I thank the ranking member, soon to be chair, for yielding. I rise in support of H.R. 7666, the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act. After years of lockdowns and social isolation, the mental health of our Nation's citizens…

You are supposed to be in charge of the monetary policy of this country.

Inflation is running rampant across the United States with consumer prices rising 8.6 percent in the past year, the largest price increase since 1981.

Financial freedom is American freedom, and, frankly, Americans do not have the financial and economic freedom they need to invest in themselves, their businesses, and their families.

We cannot continue these spend-your-way-to-prosperity policies.

the FSOC is no longer independent of partisan pressures and should be brought under congressional appropriations supervision

the Administration intends to weaponize the FSOC to circumvent Congress and the American people on digital asset policy.

We have a capital formation problem in this country.

I too, rise today to honor our dear friend, Congressman Jim Hagedorn. It is amazing that in this day and age with all of our differences, proud Minnesotans, regardless of our political perspective, can stand together in memory of one of…

Clearly, stablecoins offer economic benefits that cannot be ignored.

I firmly contend that the stablecoin is a payment instrument and is a fundamentally different asset than an investment product.

Here is the bottom line. Banks should not be the only institutions in the ecosystem with dibs to issue the potential array of financial products that the President's Working Group report simply lumps together and ties as a stablecoin.

the SEC is not providing Americans this choice when it comes to crypto commodity ETFs for reasons, again, that just don't make a lot of sense.

our strong crypto and Web 3 markets in the United States, have been giving the United States incredible capital market success.

the bottom line is that Americans deserve access to a wide diverse range of investment products.

it is my understanding that FTX uses surveillance trade technology akin to the technology that national securities exchanges use to protect investors.

This inflation is not transitory, as our witnesses finally acknowledged yesterday.