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Speaker 1: they can get started on their to do list, and

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Speaker 1: certainly the incoming chairs of the various committees in the

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Speaker 1: House have to do lists of their own, and one

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Speaker 1: of them is joining us now here on Bloomberg TV

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Speaker 1: and Radio. He was just named the incoming chair of

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Speaker 1: the House Financial Services Committee, and his Live with Me

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Speaker 1: from Capitol Hill. Congressman French Hill of Arkansas. Congratulations sir,

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Speaker 1: first and foremost for getting the gabble here, and I

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Speaker 1: just begin, though, with what exactly is going to happen

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Speaker 1: this week? Is there's not a lot of time to

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Speaker 2: Well, Kayley, it's always good to be with you. Thanks

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Speaker 2: you're right, we may be confronted with a tight time

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Speaker 1: Well, that certainly is true. And when we talk about

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Speaker 1: for that. Are you concerned at all about what additional

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Speaker 2: Well? Sure, because the real issue is that the continuing

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Speaker 2: is the agreement. I think the Speaker's done an outstanding

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Speaker 2: I don't know why the Democrats are trying to take

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you raised your background is once being

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Speaker 1: the Chairmanship of Financial Services. So let's get into what

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Speaker 1: you want to accomplish. I'd like to begin with crypto

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Speaker 2: Well, first, Dusty Johnson from South Dakota and Gt. Thompson

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Speaker 2: They'll be my partners again in this Congress. We don't

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Speaker 2: We've got new interest in the Senate. Bill Haggerty of

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Speaker 1: Well, so what we consider though the actual market structure

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Speaker 2: Well, we didn't draft the FIT twenty one legislation because

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Speaker 1: And I do wonder about the working It's not just

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Speaker 2: We had a great relationship with the banking regulators, the Treasury,

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Speaker 1: Well, we know the President elect has talked about making

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, I think Senator Loomis floated the idea of

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Speaker 1: As we get into other banking matters as well, would

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Speaker 2: I think you've got to look at whatever proposals that

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Speaker 2: what is the big picture objective here? Most people in

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Speaker 1: So that's not a no that you wouldn't necessarily be

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't personally, I've never seen anybody submit an

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Speaker 2: Well, first tailoring, following the law, making sure that their

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Speaker 1: Well, certainly we've seen a number of pursuits during this

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Speaker 1: As we consider other Biden era banking policies. Would you

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Speaker 1: support a congressional review through the Congressional Review Act of

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Speaker 1: any of them?

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Speaker 2: Well, we have. We've done that for the Small Business

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Speaker 2: Data Reporting, which is Section ten seventy one, that was

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Speaker 2: a CFPB proposal. We've done that for the current the

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Speaker 2: the cr this week to delay that. This is this

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Speaker 2: beneficial ownership reporting for thirty two million American small businesses

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Speaker 2: that I believe is the wrong approach and handled in

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Speaker 2: We've used the CRA for that, and we want to

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Speaker 2: try to delay the implementation of that for a year

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Speaker 2: since to give us an opportunity to reconsider. We'll use

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Speaker 2: the Congressional Review Act. We'll use our Article one power

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Speaker 2: on funding through looking at activities in the Financial Services

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Speaker 2: Committee that are not currently authorized, and so we're going

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Speaker 2: to use all the oversight authorities that we have at

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Speaker 2: be an inappropriate level of regulation proposed by Biden. Harris.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you, as well a Congressman, about

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Speaker 1: something we're hearing a lot about in Washington these days

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Speaker 1: as we get ready for the second administration and for

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Speaker 1: the doge to make their recommendations. It's this idea of

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Speaker 1: Washington through federal agencies. Is there anything Congress can do

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Speaker 1: to help the administration this incoming administration see through that

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Speaker 1: goal of having people return to the office, even if

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Speaker 1: there's existing union contracts that allow them to work from home.

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Speaker 2: And this is the advantage of the DOGE process with

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Speaker 2: Vivek and Elon. I think it's good to have for

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Speaker 2: profit business executives look at the sedimentary regulatory burden that's

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Speaker 2: and we're possible to get out of certain businesses that

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Speaker 2: are not necessary. We have a real issue here in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. I think the last number I saw Kayley

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Speaker 2: was only about forty percent of the federal workforce, and

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Speaker 2: the District Columbia is in the office, and so the

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Speaker 2: question is is that appropriate or inappropriate based on the

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Speaker 2: kind of work that they're doing. We've seen since the

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Speaker 2: pandemic the whole economy shift workflows, and so from a

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Speaker 2: do that in some areas, like if you're working in

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Speaker 2: I think we'll get from DOJE in Vavek and Elon

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Speaker 2: as they work with these Cabinet secretaries to assess workloads,

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Speaker 2: management techniques, the use of technology, and the use of

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Speaker 2: where people should be during the workday.

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Speaker 1: All right, Congressman, thank you so much for being generous

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Speaker 1: with your time on Bloomberg TV and radio today. That's

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Speaker 1: Republican Congressman French Hill of Arkansas, the incoming chairman of

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Speaker 1: the House Financial Services Committee. Happy holidays to you, sir,

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Speaker 1: and will see you in one hundred and nineteenth when he,

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Speaker 1: of course, will be taking that gavel