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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.
Over half of Americans are invested in the stock market. They do have some form of dividend or capital gains and it is really their nest egg. Those are the 401(k) plans to help them in their retirement years. That is money that is put away…
It is such an instructive chart, Mr. Speaker, to show the American people that, contrary to the rhetoric of the Democrats who speak of their massive cuts, look how much money we have spent on what we call mandatory spending in 2005…
Reclaiming my time, since the gentleman serves on the Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction over the food stamp program, we just heard folks on the other side of the aisle, the Democrats, talk about massive cuts in the food stamp…
Well, I certainly thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I certainly appreciate her leadership in this body and truly being one of the great leaders in trying to reform government, bring about accountability, and to help protect the…
Again it is not how much money Washington spends that counts, it is how the money is spent. That is what counts. With that, I would be very happy to yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), who has been very outspoken in…
I thank the gentleman. Now, Madam Speaker, I am very happy that we have been joined by one of our colleagues, who is a great leader in our Operation Offset, to come forward and bring to the American people ideas about how we can find…
It is a very simple idea and they have been told for years that money is in the trust fund. In a technical legalistic sense maybe it is in the trust fund, but in any practical sense it is not. That money has been taken away and an IOU left…
Indeed, I appreciate the gentleman for bringing up that point because not only do we have a huge dollar amount to solve the problem today, every year that we turn our backs on this as a Congress, as a Nation, that mountain gets $600…
I especially tonight want to thank our President. There is no doubt in my mind why our President was reelected. He is a man of vision and a man of bold leadership. It is under his leadership that we are going to be able to not only…
I can state that, number one, government is not in the business of creating wealth. Government is in the business of redistributing wealth. People, hardworking American people who go out and save and risk and take chances and work hard and…
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