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Pat Toomey

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Patrick Toomey is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 to 2022. A member of the Republican Party, Toomey was known for his focus on fiscal conservatism, economic growth, and limited government. During his tenure, he served on several Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where he was involved in financial regulation and economic policy discussions.

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Mar 24, 2021

So I wish my Democratic colleagues would tell me what is wrong with that picture?

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Mar 24, 2021

I think our challenge now, the way we ought to be thinking about the economy, is how do we get back to the best economy of my lifetime.

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Mar 23, 2021

I am very concerned about the issuance of another $500, $600 billion of SDRs in the name of helping poor countries respond to COVID.

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Mar 23, 2021

In the long run, those kinds of policies will reduce productivity, diminish economic growth, and that in turn means a lower standard of living for all Americans.

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Mar 23, 2021

In response, Congress passed the CARES Act to provide temporary relief to help the country weather a temporary storm.

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Mar 17, 2021

If there is strong data suggesting that there is a risk to profitability, then the SEC framework requires that those be disclosed.

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Mar 17, 2021

Society's broad response to climate change is for others to decide, in particular elected leaders.

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Mar 17, 2021

Radical policies to force banks to cutoff capital to these companies would not have a meaningful impact on the climate.

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Mar 17, 2021

The climate models are not designed to do that.

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Mar 17, 2021

There is no reason at all. Neither the Fed nor the SEC... have particular expertise in this area.

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Mar 17, 2021

Let us be clear what this is really all about. This is about undermining the independence of regulators so that they can be pressured to allocate credit as the political left would like it to be allocated.

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Mar 17, 2021

There is no risk of climate within 4 or 5 years to different regions of the country.

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