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“Those left elements will drag his sort of center to further to the left and will end up with sort of a compromise. And I think at the end of the day, if the Democrats win Congress, he'll sign whatever they pass.”

“Now we have in Congress a bill put forward by Adam Schiff that basically would create a domestic Patriot Act to create giant new surveillance powers for the state to go after people they deem to be traitors and seditionists and domestic terrorists.”

“I think what's going to happen in the wake of this election is that this infrastructure bill is going to sail through because one of the crazier things that the progressives were doing was holding that bill hostage.”

“Nancy Pelosi is, I think, the third or fourth richest person in Congress.”

“It's something like a 200 dollar fine or something like that, that gets waived in most of these cases.”

“There's also indication that Congress wanted enforcers not just to act when, you know, the third and fourth companies are merging or the first and second, but actually in the incipiency.”

“We need Congress to pass some legislative framework that puts the puck in one side of the arena, a rink or the other. And otherwise, otherwise all this gray is going to exist for a long time.”

“The other thing that's going to happen is Republicans may not be able to pass much legislation, but they're going to be able to do investigations.”

“Congress back in 2017 passed deregulation of safety standards around these train companies so that they didn't have to spend the money to upgrade the brakes that supposedly failed that caused it.”

“Edwin Snowden released documents that showed us that we were all being spied upon, and that's important for Americans to know, and in fact, it was so important That Congress passed laws based upon his revelations to protect the American people.”

“That said, I just don't think that there's a lot of political support to visit this issue right now. And so unfortunately, I'm pretty skeptical that you're going to see any form of legislation pass. I unfortunately think that The sec has by and large put the e…”

“It'll never apply to Congress because they'd have to pass it for it to apply, and it will never happen.”

“The second one was this political reform proposal where I said, you know, let's have term limits for members of Congress and senators. Let's not have any corporate PAC money or any PAC money, any lobbyist. Let's have term limits for Supreme Court justices. Let…”

“The best thing we could do for America is just force all of these folks in Congress to negotiate 12 bills a year, keep them busy, focus on those bills, get to a, like a compromise, get it to the Senate, get it voted, get it to the president's side. That's it. …”

“And only 11 members of Congress have an engineering degree.”

“There's not a, there may be five people that can read a P&L or a balance sheet in the whole damn Congress.”

“I don't think that the Section two 30 rewrite is going to be broad and sweeping. What I noticed from a bipartisan perspective by both the Democrats and the Republicans is that the one single narrow issue that they all seem to align on is not necessarily about …”

“You know, let's have term limits for members of Congress and senators. Let's not have any corporate PAC money or any PAC money, any lobbyists, and also ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. This was common sense things.”

“The solution to those fiscal problems require sacrifice in the short term, and elected officials are not willing to sacrifice anything in the short term because it means that they may not get re-elected. And if their number one goal is to survive, then they're…”

“Are we gonna get two trillion in cuts like Elon wants? I would love that. I doubt you're gonna be able to pass that through Congress”

“So, look, the bottom line here is that I think that we are close to having clear rules of the road codified by Congress, which is what the crypto industry's been asking for, and the days of Gensler terrorizing crypto companies by issuing Wells notices without …”

“By Congress, they have to hire contractors to do work and the contractors, the contracting firms charge them two and a half times the sort of cost of an individual employee that they could otherwise hire.”

“The 2017 Trump tax cuts are expiring this year. We're going to extend them.”

“I think we could do a revised and updated version this Congress. And that was one of the things they all, the chairman expressed support for. So I think there's a pretty good chance we could get this done in the next six months.”

“What the four chairman indicated is actually they're going to take up stable coins first. And then market structure will follow very quickly. So I think we could see a stable coin bill past Congress in the next several months.”

“Everybody recognizes that if we don't get this done, it's going to be the biggest, it's pass fail. It's the biggest tax hike in history.”

“If we do nothing, you're gonna get the largest tax increase in decades, and it won't just affect the rich. This affects the middle class as well. The 2017 tax cuts increase the standard deduction, which is important for the middle class. It raised the child ta…”

“I, I'm in complete agreement with you, and I think it's a lack of leadership on Trump's part. If Trump is going to criticize Taylor Swift and Zelensky and Putin and everybody, you know, all day long on Truth Social, he can criticize Congress and the Democrats …”

“You cannot change The spending without a change in statute from Congress.”

“I'm blaming Congress for having kicked them the authority in the first place. If you're going to place, you know, blame with somebody, you have to give it to the branch that actually abdicated its duty and decided to construct an entirely different branch and …”

“And in the next few months, we expect Congress is going to pass the Clarity Act, which is going to answer a number of open questions about how crypto market structure should be regulated.”

“And interestingly, most of these rules have come not from Congress, but from the administrative state.”

“I am totally for a stock trading ban. I've led on that. I don't trade stocks. My wife's money was inherited in trust that I'm no say over, no control over, and it's in a trust.”

“I am literally the only Democrat in America in Congress that I've come across that saying, I think it's a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime.”

“The reason why Nancy Pelosi's returns are so consistently good is Reg FD does not apply to people in Congress.”

“So the US Naval fleet has 296 ships today. There's a congressional mandate, statutory minimum of 355 ships that was set by Congress in 2018. That was eight years ago. Last year, we built nine ships, but we retired 19 naval vessels.”