On the recordJuly 7, 2016
Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I want to thank her for bringing this before the body tonight, and urge its adoption. This underlying bill talks about the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We have talked about it a lot tonight. One of the things the underlying bill does is it puts it under the appropriations process, and this is a pretty good example of why they ought to be under the appropriations process. Most other agencies in the Federal Government are. They come to Congress, and they say: This is what we plan our spending on and here is how much we would like. But they are not accountable to anybody. So we are just trying to bring some transparency. But this is the classic example of why they ought to be under the appropriations process. If they would walk in and say, ``We just want to spend $15 million of hard-earned taxpayer dollars on advertising,'' we might ask them questions about that. So it is a good amendment, and I urge its adoption.
