Randy Neugebauer's 'Total Coverage Option' area-based supplemental insurance authority is a well-crafted and cost effective option for shallow loss coverage.

Unfortunately, the Speaker of the House, Ms. Pelosi, decided to take that out of the farm bill.

Did this committee ever have a hearing on that to scrutinize where every single dollar is going? Zero, silence, nada.

In a time of a budget deficit, oversight and accountability on spending is urgently important.

I believe that the taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent ahead of time rather than after the fact.

Let me a tell you what a recipe for disaster is--allowing citizens to be lied to and bilked into subprime predatory mortgages...

I certainly don't want to be back in the same situation we were in 2008 when everybody was pointing at everybody else saying it wasn't me, it was the other guy.

I believe you ought to have independence and I look forward to your many visits in the future.

the CFPB isn't under the appropriation process. If they spend $100 million on paper clips, we can't even say, 'Wait a minute, you can't do that next year.'

we now have an agency that has basically unlimited powers, which is being run by a person who has not been constitutionally ratified to hold that position.

This hearing is not about consumer protection; it is about accountability, accountability that the American people desire.