Regrettably, we remain stuck in the slowest, weakest economic recovery since at least World War II.
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.
And as I testified earlier, that undercuts our ability to use financial sanctions in the future against the IRGC.
If that happens, Iran is going to get access to the U.S. dollar for a major transaction.
The Administration claims that they have prohibited Iran's access to the U.S. dollar.
Some who defend the Boeing Iranian Air deal point to the commercial and civilian nature of these airplanes.
For the past year this committee's bipartisan Task Force on Terrorism Financing has done excellent work in shedding light on sources of terror financing.
I believe Congress granted IOR for one purpose, and it appears that the Fed is using it for another purpose.
There is a better way forward, which includes renormalizing monetary policy and reforming key aspects of the Federal Reserve.
The Fed cannot escape its share of responsibility in being complicit in 'Obamanomics' because it has lost much of its independence from the Administration.
After almost 8 years of the President's economic policies, he is on track to be the only President in U.S. history not to deliver a single year of at least 3 percent economic growth.
May I inquire if the other side has any further speakers before we use all our time?
I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett), the chairman of our Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee.
I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer) who is chairman of our Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee.
To regularly monitor fixed-income market liquidity and any potential effects that the Volcker rule may have on market liquidity.
With all due respect, Article 1 of the Constitution states, and there is longstanding Supreme Court precedent, that this branch of government has the oversight rule.
I think one of the reasons they are unhappy is too often, they see an Administration that either makes up law, ignores law, or lives above the law, and they see a Congress that they think is helpless or hapless in dealing with that.
That means the President's legacy will be a debt so large that at the end of his budget, we will spend more on debt service annually than what we spend on national defense, Medicaid, education, and transportation infrastructure.
The reality is, since the President was elected and the Fed embarked upon its unprecedented quantitative easing in zero real interest rate policies, working families' paychecks have declined.
Approximately one in six is on food stamps and almost 15 percent live in poverty.
Their net worth has declined. The real unemployment rate continues to hover around 10 percent.
It is fatal conceit to believe that the Fed is capable of micromanaging our economy to some state of economic nirvana.
I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), who is a very thoughtful member of the House Financial Services Committee. I wish to accept his amendment. I believe it adds greater granularity and specificity on a very…
I am happy to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Hurt), the author of title IV of H.R. 1675.





