I am increasingly worried that we should be more worried about the weaponization of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It looks more and more like not an impartial regulatory body protecting investors and consumers, but a regulatory body that is using its power to silence and immiserate political rivals of the current President of the United States.

I am increasingly worried that we should be more worried about the weaponization of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

If you guys use the SEC in such a politically motivated way, eventually you are going to be out of power.

It looks more and more like not an impartial regulatory body protecting investors and consumers, but a regulatory body that is using its power to silence and immiserate political rivals.

My point here, Mr. Gensler, is that you seem to have a very troubling pattern of hiring at an impartial regulatory agency.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the Ranking Member, and the Members of the Committee, for having me.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the Ranking Member, and the Members of the Committee, for having me.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the Ranking Member, and the Members of the Committee, for having me.

If you don't stop sending fentanyl precursors to Mexico and to our own ports of entry, we're going to really penalize you guys economically.

I want to empower the president of the United States, whether that's a Democrat or Republican, to use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels.

capital requirements are not necessarily a panacea to the type of banking run that we saw in the Silicon Valley Bank case.