How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going to rate, especially when it affects small investors in the United States of America?

There are a lot of us who have concerns that the rulemaking of your Bureau is limiting the ability of small community banks to serve their customers.

With over $100 billion flowing in Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terror, the risk of terror financing has never been greater.

As we enter into the new year, Congress should prioritize efforts to stop the flow of money and resources to terrorist organizations.

Criminal enterprises have relied on this method of illicit financing for years. However, many believe that this is an emerging technique now being used by terrorist groups to finance their violent and oppressive operations.

Transparency and government accountability is what sets the United States of America apart from most other countries in the world.

Government is too big; government is too opaque; and government is increasingly unaccountable to Congress.

we punted in passing Dodd-Frank. Essentially, we punted to the bureaucracy.

I care deeply about the retail investor and the low- and moderate-income investor.

This rulemaking from the Department of Labor makes their inexperience in this area crystal clear.

this deal, in my opinion, is going to lead to war. And it will make war more likely.

Oversight of the Federal Government, whether it is agencies, individuals, or other institutions, is crucial to our system of checks and balances.

I believe there does have to be a balance between fair regulations, predictable regulations, but also not killing jobs.

a couple of years ago the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described the national debt as the greatest threat to our national security.

The protection of our personal data is increasingly a critical part of our private lives, and the threat of data breaches from state or non-state actors looms heavy over security experts in nearly every sector of the American economy.

One veteran who is homeless is one too many.

If they see justice being served at least in another jurisdiction, even if not in their own, that will be very encouraging to them.

This whole fast-and-furious fiasco is something that we will always live to regret.

I think that what you are doing is absolutely right because I think that, as corruption, corrupt officials, criminality, and so on--the lack of the rule of law is such a driver of terrorism in these areas where, essentially, the people are…

The more you can sanction those individuals as government leaders and others who are involved in the corrupt practices and in the financial skullduggery that goes on in the general criminal world, then the less--obviously, the less…

The fact remains that the government of Iran continues to be the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

I believe one of the most effective tools we have to counter these groups is through undermining the funding for those who seek to harm America and our way of life.

As Members of Congress, our first constitutional duty is to provide for the safety and the defense of our country.

Any global strategy against terror groups worldwide must attack at their funding source.