"I feel strongly that Congress should act swiftly to lower the de minimis threshold for imports in order to prevent poorly-manufactured lithium-ion batteries from saturating the American market."
"About 2 years ago, I passed the United States Fire Administration Empowerment Act, which set up a Federal process for investigating the deadliest fires in America."
"It is critical that the United States establish battery safety standards for all micromobility devices."
"We thank Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15) and Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) for sponsoring this important legislation..."
"The United States has a strategic interest in maintaining a unipolar financial system built on the U.S. dollar, but I wonder if America has been too aggressive in the use of sanctions?"
"Do you share these concerns, and how closely are you monitoring the situation at New York Community Bank?"
"Is it fair to say, as U.S. Treasury Secretary, that you are prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent a second wave of bank failures?"
"I am wondering if we are seeing in the American financial system the paradox of more regulation having the unintended consequence of causing less regulation."
"My own life journey, from public housing in the Bronx to the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., is a product of public investment in affordable housing."
"Should it be Chair Gary Gensler, an unelected bureaucrat who answers only to himself, or should it be the United States Congress, whose Members are elected by and therefore accountable to the people?"
"The latest bank failures have held up a mirror to the two-tiered banking system in the United States."
"Here in Congress, we have what I would describe as an anti-crypto derangement syndrome that clouds clear thinking about crypto regulation."