I would just say from my perspective, it seems like you just made it much easier to have consumers get trapped in that cycle of debt.
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Well, thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate our Committee's attention to this really pressing issue of human trafficking, particularly the horrible new ways that perpetrators have found to target and to exploit children online.
The Dingell Act, 2 years ago, was bipartisan. If this were bipartisan, we would not be here. But to illustrate that, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar).
PREPA needs to continue to pursue conversion of their power generation assets off of burning inefficient Venezuelan bunker fuel and onto clean and efficient liquified natural gas.
I am hopeful that more substantial progress to strengthen the power grid is forthcoming in the near future.
I find it a little odd that you are not acknowledging the necessity of federal support to be able to do so.
The lack of testing in this country is, number one, why we have rampant unemployment, but number two, why we are faced with this awful decision on how we reopen schools.
I just feel it's taken us a long, long, long time to get to a point where we have rapid testing, which we don't have yet; ample testing, which we don't have.
This legislation is needed and it is needed immediately.
I hope the House will act quickly on this legislation.
This bill would designate Hong Kongers as Priority 2 refugees, streamlining the refugee admission process.
Yesterday I introduced the bipartisan Hong Kong Safe Harbor Act, along with my partner Representative Castro.
My perception is that Congress and the Fed have done a decent job of keeping the economy on life support.
I think it is particularly important we get the CRA correct, since its purpose, its historical purpose, was to address discrimination against Black and minority individuals and communities.
Instead, we decided to move ahead with what can only be described as really good political theater.
This hearing, as far as understanding truth of what went on, and coming up with a good history, is going to be invalid.
I know that when Democrats were in the Minority, they used to object to some of the titles which we had on our hearings.
All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.