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

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

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

Aggregated information going to the IRS is the scariest proposal.

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

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

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.

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

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

Elections have consequences.

I should be clear. I am so used to saying 'heirs' property' as if everybody listening to us knows what heirs' property really is.

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

In August, Senator Ossoff and I sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, urging FEMA to review and revise its practices.

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.

Like so many other South Carolinians, I will never forget the 1,000-year flood in 2015.

I introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Schatz, the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act.

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

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

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.

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

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

We must do everything we can to support and empower local communities in their most vulnerable times, especially for their most vulnerable citizens.

Older Americans and people with disabilities are more vulnerable to natural disasters, and we must do everything we can to protect them.