Tim Scott

Manage your money, manage your life.

Financial literacy is a core component of the American dream. It empowers consumers to responsibly participate in the mainstream economic ecosystem.

Building on financial inclusion, I have also introduced, along with Senator Joe Manchin, the Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2021.

Part of my focus is making sure that every American, and particularly our senior Americans, have an opportunity to understand and appreciate and to benefit from financial literacy.

Financial literacy is critical to learn as early in life as possible.

Credit is very, very, very important.

I continue to urge everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable, to protect themselves by getting vaccinated and boosted.

Aggregated information going to the IRS is the scariest proposal.

Giving the IRS more power to catch tax cheats... seems farfetched, at best.

But what you see and are experiencing is inflation in part caused by trillions of dollars of Government spending.

Elections have consequences.

Part of the challenge that I see... is that since the pandemic, we have seen a loss of about 1.7 percent of the labor force participation rate.

I do not know what the definition of 'transitory' is anymore.

The result of one lost seat in Georgia may cost taxpayers just this year $5 trillion in additional spending.

What I have heard this morning is hard to process back at home in South Carolina.

On the Green New Deal Champion you proposed taking economic and climate policymaking from Congress and creating an unaccountable bureaucracy called the National Investment Authority.

I cannot think of a nominee more poorly suited to be the Comptroller of the Currency, based solely on your public positions, statements, and the weight of your writings than you are.

The importance of that local coordination cannot be usurped or replaced by a Federal top-down approach to natural disasters.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I see. In other words, the work that you do, which is excellent work by the way--thank you for doing it.

We must build on previous bipartisan legislation to help older Americans and Americans with disabilities before, during, and after disasters.

If you are waiting in a line that long, Mr. Chairman, you are going to be hungry and frustrated.

That is why I introduced the FEED Act with Senator Murphy from Connecticut.

I recognize how hard Hurricane Ida hit your State in September and how Pennsylvanians responded as they always do, with courage and with strength.

Would it not be helpful to have more funding support for local folks who understand and appreciate the severity of the challenges faced by those communities where the disasters happen within?