The idea that we can make up for bad trade policies and restore the economy by letting Wall Street do anything they want didn't work in 2008. It is not going to work now.
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.
True consumer protection is only to be had in competitive, transparent, and innovative markets...
The damage Dodd-Frank has done to consumers and business is well known to every Member...
This bill replaces onerous government fiat with market discipline, ends bailouts with bankruptcy...
The economy does not work for working people. They have seen their paychecks stagnate; they have seen their savings decimated.
The Dodd-Frank Act represents an even more dangerous prospect, namely, politicized lending.
Under the Financial CHOICE Act there will be economic opportunity for all and bank bailouts for none...
Dodd-Frank has been a bigger burden to enterprise than all other Obama-era regulations combined.
It has been almost 7 years since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. We were told it would lift our economy, but instead we are stuck in the slowest, weakest, most tepid recovery in the history of the republic.
You can't have a half-trillion-dollar trade deficit and then say, 'We are going to make up for that by deregulating the banks and reinstituting the disasters that we suffered in 2008.'
Madam Speaker, first, I want to thank the gentleman from Michigan, not only for yielding but, more importantly, for his leadership in helping improve our capital markets and our economy here. I want to thank all of the Republican and…





