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Jeb Hensarling

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Jeb Hensarling is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. During his tenure, he served as the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping financial regulation and policy. Hensarling was known for his advocacy of free-market principles and his opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Nov 18, 2015

I urge all Members to adopt this amendment. I must admit, if people all over America are wondering why it is so difficult to get something done on a bipartisan basis, traditionally, the least controversial thing we do here is study…

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Nov 18, 2015

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining on both sides. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Nov 18, 2015

Might I inquire how much time is remaining on each side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 15 minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from California has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Nov 17, 2015

I would hope that the SEC would look very closely at the U.K.

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Nov 17, 2015

The SEC has now asserted its jurisdiction to hopefully stop the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) from regulating asset managers like banks.

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Nov 17, 2015

The SEC finally completed the bipartisan JOBS Act rulemakings to implement the reg A+ and crowdfunding titles.

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Nov 17, 2015

Vigorous oversight is also needed to ensure that the SEC is a good steward of its resources, both its time and its budget.

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Nov 17, 2015

This committee is committed to conducting vigorous oversight of the SEC because the SEC's three-part mission is an important one as Americans continue to struggle through an economy that is underperforming.

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Nov 17, 2015

The SEC is 'full out focused on developing its own fiduciary rule.'

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Nov 17, 2015

It seems that the only time that the SEC actually modernizes its securities laws, to the benefit of the growing numbers of businesses, is when we here in Congress tell you to.

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Nov 16, 2015

From my perspective, I don't believe that the SEC and the Federal securities laws should be used to help counter human rights abuses or further altruistic causes, no matter how important that they may be.

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Nov 4, 2015

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Transportation ought to be funded out of transportation fees. It shouldn't be funded out of the functional equivalent of a bank account tax. It should not be funded on the backs of home buyers, or…

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Nov 3, 2015

I guess, Chair Yellen, detail may be in the eye of the beholder, because Members of Congress still don't understand this.

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Nov 3, 2015

How are market participants supposed to be convinced that we have less systemic risk when they have no insight into these tests?

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Oct 27, 2015

Since I withdrew the request for the yeas and nays on the motion to recommit, then would it be possible for the ranking member, the gentlewoman from California, to withdraw her request for the yeas and nays on the underlying bill, should…

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Oct 27, 2015

Again, I appreciate the gentleman from South Carolina making his parliamentary inquiries. I think it has helped clarify the matter. At this point, if it is the will of the House to send this back to committee, I look forward to the vote…

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Oct 27, 2015

Yes, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina for his parliamentary inquiry.

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Oct 27, 2015

If the gentleman from Oklahoma, another valuable member of the House Financial Services Committee, who I know we are on opposite sides of this issue, if the gentleman would like time to speak, I would be happy to yield to the gentleman.

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Oct 27, 2015

May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The gentleman from Texas has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California has 13 minutes remaining.

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Oct 27, 2015

In order to help equalize the time, I reserve the balance of my time.

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Oct 21, 2015

We cannot allow a program that has benefited Americans in times of need after a crisis, such as what happened in 2008, to be cut to the bone to the extent that it becomes ineffective.

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Oct 21, 2015

It is simply not enough to marginally improve the lives of the able-bodied poor through perpetual government dependency; a caring and compassionate society must always have a ladder of opportunity on which everyone can climb.

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Oct 21, 2015

In launching the war on poverty, President Johnson told us its purpose was, 'not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.'

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Oct 7, 2015

I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Guinta).

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Oct 7, 2015

Reclaiming my time, so I continue to hear ``diagnostic'' and read between the lines. So, again, at worst, the bill is redundant. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer), the chairman of the Financial…

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