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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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Dec 10, 2014

In that case, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

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Dec 10, 2014

I am prepared a yield a small amount of time to any Democrat Member on the floor who intends to vote ``no'' on S. 2244, as amended, because I have not heard one say that yet. Mr. Speaker, I have no takers. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman…

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Dec 10, 2014

I now yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas), the chairman of the Agriculture Committee and a distinguished member of the House Financial Services Committee as well.

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Dec 10, 2014

I thank the gentlelady from New York, the ranking member of the Capital Markets Subcommittee, for her support. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer), the chairman of the Financial Services Housing and Insurance…

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Nov 12, 2014

So part of the problem is not that there has not been enough effort, it is not that there are not enough people at the table, but that developing the intelligence takes time.

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Nov 12, 2014

Accordingly, I am concerned about just how seriously our Commander in Chief, President Obama, has taken this threat.

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Nov 12, 2014

I know that we cannot be cavalier about security threats such as ISIS.

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Aug 31, 2014

4 years after Dodd-Frank's passage it is not readily apparent, what, if anything, OFR has contributed to the process of identifying, mitigating systemic risk.

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Jul 22, 2014

Kid, you have third base so screwed up nobody can play it.

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Jul 22, 2014

Believe it or not, the time belongs to the gentlelady from New York, and she can allocate it.

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Jul 22, 2014

The Dodd-Frank Act has not made the American consumer safer, and it has failed to end too-big-to-fail.

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Jul 22, 2014

Laws are evaluated by their advertised benefits, not by their actual benefits or actual cost.

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Jul 22, 2014

It wasn't deregulation. It was bad regulation that helped lead us into this crisis.

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Jul 22, 2014

Dodd-Frank has always been based upon a false premise that somehow deregulation or lack of regulation led us into the crisis.

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Jul 22, 2014

Dodd-Frank has been the wrong remedy, adding incomprehensible complexity to incomprehensible complexity.

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Jul 15, 2014

Regrettably, such a reaction has become commonplace on our committee. With few exceptions, my Democratic colleagues have proven they do not wish to legislate, nor do they wish to conduct oversight.

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Jul 15, 2014

I am certainly not interested in a transcript of a private luncheon, but would you be willing to report to this committee on the matters of mutual concern that were discussed in any agreements reached between Treasury and the Federal…

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Jul 15, 2014

But with the real unemployment rate at 12.1 percent, 46 million Americans dependent on food stamps, and real median income having fallen every year of the Obama Administration, the status quo is unacceptable.

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Jul 15, 2014

It causes many to wonder why they ran for Congress in the first place. And the answer: they apparently wish to be defenders and apologists of the status quo.

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Jul 9, 2014

And I think this is a perfect example of why you need to delegate decision-making to the Federal Reserve.

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Jul 9, 2014

I believe our ultimate objective should be to get the Fed out of financial regulation.

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Jun 24, 2014

Mr. Hochberg, I might say it is time to start showing a little bit of independent judgment in this matter, just one man's opinion.

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Jun 24, 2014

Why are you taking taxpayer money and consistently loaning it to nation-states that are some of the worst human rights abusers on the planet?

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Jun 24, 2014

We have the highest corporate tax rate of any industrialized nation in the world, yet my friends on the other side of the aisle, the only way they can think to somehow make us more competitive is to take taxpayer money in subsidized large…

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Jun 24, 2014

I think, if I remember right, just about every Democrat on this committee cosponsored the reduction in jobs of a half a million.

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