Bob Menendez Jr.

what we need is clearer thinking, not ideology.

we knew principal reduction would provide a pathway to affordable and sustainable payments for underwater borrowers.

Would you agree that improving the labor provisions in NAFTA is critical--I think you just referred to it--in a sense, to the long-term success of the agreement and to ensure that American workers see more of the benefits of trade?

In 2014, I authored a specific authorization for the use of military force to combat the Islamic State.

They have done plenty already that they should be responded to.

There is a direct connection between repressive actions domestically and adversarial actions abroad.

The Autism CARES Act of 2014, which I authored and which was passed unanimously by Congress, reauthorized Federal autism programs through fiscal year 2019.

Will the President sign a tax reform bill that does not cut taxes for all families earning under $100,000?

Do you believe it is a good idea to cut Medicaid to provide tax cuts for the wealthy?

Zeroing out, for example, CDFIs... does not make any sense on behalf of the very people who we supposedly want to defend.

These communities desperately need investments that will allow them to start small businesses, create jobs, purchase homes.

I wanted to take this first opportunity that the full Committee has had on the question of housing finance systems to lay out a few principles that I think are important.

So what I want to know from you is what FHFA and the enterprises can do to provide greater access to loan sales for community-oriented institutions like New Jersey Community Capital.

If we had any other form of attack, believe me, we would have imminently responded.

I think that can translate into more leverage on Libya.

The bottom line is you are saying that their interests are going to trump any influence that we may have over this because we have a multilayered interest with them.

Well, then it seems to me if that is a fundamental question, do we not have leverage?

China, Russia, and other countries should understand that there is a larger place for them at the decision-making table provided that they are constructive and respect the interests of other nations.

At the end of the day, we need an SEC and a Chair who is going to be a cop on the beat.

It is a congressionally mandated provision.

I get concerned sometimes when I hear about that we will have reticence from our partners.

New Jersey has welcomed 275 Syrian refugees in the past 12 months, and the IRC has an active network in New Jersey that, in my view, has enriched the State.

My goal is to make the Flood Insurance Program simple, affordable, fair, efficient, and accountable to consumers and taxpayers.

43 cents on every dollar to a private insurance company that is not on the hook for anything does not seem to me to be a system that ultimately works in the interest of the taxpayer.

To add insult to injury, these millions of dollars came partially from the very policyholders he was fighting in court.