Jeb Hensarling

True consumer protection requires access to competitive, transparent, and innovative markets vigorously policed for force, fraud, and deception.

It seems to me we have gone from extremes here.

I am not sure I want my government steering people into a product that may not be right for them.

I haven't found anything we have agreed on yet, but I haven't lost hope. It may happen one day.

The PATH Act charts a course for doing so.

I think this is without a doubt the most balanced, thoughtful, and logical piece of legislation I have ever seen come before the committee.

In my opinion, claims to the contrary are pure fiction.

We guarantee, let me emphasize, we guarantee a repeat of the recent recession.

You can put your boots in the oven, but it doesn't make them biscuits.

I am glad to see you are shaping Fed policy to help people and not just based on rigid ideological dogma.

I have already gotten an update from The Wall Street Journal and a number of others who are looking at your comments.

As we can see up here, we are exceeding $17 trillion in debt, and our chances for recovery as well as the outlook for our children's prosperity dims.

Our committee has an obligation to carefully scrutinize the Federal Reserve's decisions

Persistent weak economic growth; higher taxes on working families; and unsustainable, record trillion-dollar deficits

The legacy of the President's economic policies, a failed experiment in fiscal policy

I believe our Nation will always be grateful.

I certainly hope it is not. We have other matters to discuss with you and the Fed.

If we can't hold the regulators accountable, I will guarantee you it does not matter if too-big-to-fail is in place or it is not in place.

Unfortunately, Dodd-Frank continued the long-term goal of many to essentially turn the banks into utilities backed by the government that regulators can control and use to fund the government and allocate resources to their favorite…

Dodd-Frank did not end too-big-to-fail; it guaranteed it.

We need new ideas, bold new ways of approaching the problems of poverty and housing affordability, new strategies that are premised on choice and self-sufficiency.

How can it be that year after year we can spend so much money to achieve so little and fail so many?

In the 21st Century, we need to define success by how many people we help graduate from Federal assistance to lives of dignity, self-sufficiency, and happiness.

Our system of public housing is failing, and by refusing to reform and innovate, we elected officials are failing the very people who are in most need of our assistance.

We have all heard the phrase ``American as apple pie,'' but it is shameful to think that every American pie has baked into it Soviet-style sugar. We have a Byzantine array of government production quotas, import quotas, mandatory target…