Sean Duffy

I want to be clear, I don't think this is all, this is usually a really good space, but you do have people gaming the system.

I just really wanted to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to work on this bipartisan bill.

Housing is important to America. Housing is important to families.

It has been a core element of the Democratic principles that the Ranking Member has led us on.

We have to come together as a Congress in a bipartisan fashion, to figure out a way to address our housing finance system.

I think we have an affordable housing crisis in this country right now.

And, in particular, I think it does five things that are really important.

It protects a lot of important consumer financial--or consumer protections that were embedded in Dodd-Frank.

I believe this proposal we have come up with... will start reallocating some of that capital toward the really dire need we have for more affordable housing.

It stabilizes the housing finance system in this country.

I appreciate your leadership on this, Congressman Barr.

this is a holistic issue that we face as a community and as a country.

The Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Act, which passed the House almost unanimously, but like many other bills, is still waiting action I believe in the Senate.

The counties don't have the resources to actually fund the out-of-home placements, which you want money to address addiction, but then you are spending money to address the consequences of it with the out-of-home placement for children.

And there is no silver-bullet answer here I don't think, but trying to find bright spots that can help our communities deal with these issues is incredibly important.

And we want to manage pain. We don't want people not to be able to get medicine to manage their pain, but also we don't want to push that pendulum too far over.

And so no wonder we have a crisis on our hands that was made not by the drug dealers, but whether we want to talk about pharmaceuticals or whether we want to talk about doctors and hospitals, and it has absolutely ravaged all of our…

I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a rich conversation. I am hearing my colleagues saying: We are almost out of time. We have to reauthorize the program. We can't let it expire. The truth is, we have known for months that this…

I want to thank the chairman for his great bipartisan work on this package in S. 488, as well as the ranking member, Ms. Waters, for her bipartisanship. This is a package that takes the finer work, not just over the last 2 years, but work…

So would you agree that we should not enter into any international agreement or standards that would undermine our U.S. insurance regulatory system, State-based model?

President Trump has worked hard to streamline and reduce regulation.

Do you think we should put American interest first? Do you think we should look out for the global interest or American interest?

What has that actually done for the African-American unemployment rate in America?

I think free trade is great for our economy. But I also think that if you don't have fair trade...

Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have discussed harmful economic policies.