WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on June 22, 2022, entitled "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress": * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman and welcome Chairman Powell. When you testified before this Committee in March, inflation was at a 40-year high, and Federal Reserve regional banks were stonewalling reasonable requests for information about t more PR