Roger Williams

We changed the law and I actually saved a lot of lives by allowing family members to donate organs.

I strongly encourage authorizers to continue focusing their efforts on burn pits.

I hope everyone will see the disaster that has unfolded when we have allowed the Department of Education to become the largest consumer lender in the country.

I want to thank all of you for being supportive of clinics.

I urge the Committee to prioritize efforts to ensure veterans across the US have access to top-quality care.

The outcome, the intention--as you noted, we can't disclose because we haven't been able to do the work yet.

Your two banks are currently being carefully examined by multiple Federal agencies.

As you noted, I have been a proud member of the Georgia banking group for a long time.

It is the government that is the major drain on the American economy and individuals.

If my colleagues have complaints about the process of two banks merging, then I would encourage them to change the underlying law.

I think, Representative Wagner, that there are many things in Dodd-Frank that were positive for our industry

So in the State of Georgia, if someone was in a branch and that branch got consolidated, they would have an opportunity with the new company.

Minimum wage is not a career, and we need to remember that.

Do you believe that the private sector rather than the government is better suited to explore the potentials of blockchain technology in the financial services space?

I applaud your entrepreneurial spirit, and it leads me to believe you are probably a capitalist; are you not?

As a small business owner, I am a Main Street America guy, 50 years in business.

It seems like there is a lot more work to be done internally at Libra before we, in Congress, can seriously examine all the regulatory and security hurdles.

I think our time would be much better spent working on issues that will benefit the American people immediately rather than pre-emptively trying to stop this idea from even being explored by Facebook and other industry participants.

We should not discourage the private sector from investing their own time, and their own money to research these new technologies.

So do you believe these stress tests have been made easier since you took over as Chairman of the Federal Reserve?

Even the slightest changes can have significant impacts on many parts of the economy.

Are you still a capitalist, or have you undergone a drastic change of thought and now believe socialism would be a better economic system for our country?

With that being said, you have noticed--have you noticed any of these factors improving in getting more people back in the workforce since you were last here in February?

I personally think the largest companies in the country who can afford to arrange their own export financing should do so without any assistance of the Federal Government.

Can you elaborate on why a more socialist heavy-handed government approach to fair housing would fail low-income individuals and minorities?