Rep. French Hill

Well, it's very important.

You know, Jonathan, on the priorities I've had to have conservative center-right policy on redirecting regulation and policy for people's investment opportunities, more crowdfunding, more public offerings, community banking, making community banking great again by lowering the regulatory burden on small banks that make 60% of the home loans in this country.

and now 21st century housing.

We got 300 votes for those policies, as we did for our digital assets and crypto work last year.

That shows that Republicans and Democrats, when it comes to economic policy, can get on the same page and pass legislation that President Trump should sign into law that will make people's lives better, costs will be brought down, supply chain, supply side capital will advance, and community banking will thrive in this country.

And those are all good things.

Well, I had a pretty wild hearing last week with my ranking member and Mr. Besson's testimony.

So I know I know wild, but it was.

But that's what happens on Capitol Hill.

We bring the public and their elected representatives together to try to find solutions and they can get spicy sometimes.

Congressman French Hill.

Happy New Year, Jonathan.

Great to be with you.

Congratulations on becoming a dad.

So happy for you and your family.

Look, this proposal is a price control, and I think I've heard from Republicans in the House that they have concerns about it.

What we are in agreement with President Trump on is that we want to reverse the curse of the Biden years and taxation, regulatory and government policies.

So we want to work to pass my 21st Century Housing Act, which would lower home construction costs.

We want to pass the Main Street Capital Access Act.

which would lower compliance cost and refocus the bank regulators on safety and soundness, tailoring regulations to bank complexity.