Jeb Hensarling: “Financial regulators possessed every regulatory power to prevent the 2008 financial crisis, but failed to do so.”

Tonight it is a privilege that I have to yield to somebody who has become a good friend and an excellent colleague, who has served with me, at my side, at the House Financial Services Committee, who will be leaving us at the end of this…

As we saw in the last crisis, it is the average hardworking Americans that will suffer the consequences if Washington deregulates Wall Street mega banks again.

The last piece of that puzzle was the Texas Stock Exchange.

As New York is increasingly shoving capital out, Texas is saying, 'You're welcome here.