I want to thank my coanchor, my distinguished colleague Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for her tremendous leadership and for anchoring this Special Order hour, and, of course, our chairwoman, Joyce Beatty, for her tremendous leadership…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to laud her and the members of the Congressional Black Caucus for all of the tremendous work on behalf of our families, on behalf of children, on behalf of communities. I want to just point out…

And he said it may be only $300, but in the end, it is help that we are most grateful for. That is what this is about. When the Republicans gave the tax cut to the very wealthy, some of those corporations just went back and bought more…

My colleague from Wisconsin makes a very valid point. I heard you over the weekend on one of the news outlets making the same point. Both of these bills are economic packages. I really resent, in fact, some of the inferences that have been…

There is a bipartisan bill that I introduced, H.R. 5291, that would do this, it is called the Democracy in Design Act.

I am hopeful that our relationship is remarkedly different than we had with your predecessors given the important role this subcommittee plays in your responsibilities.

I am not here to relitigate the decisions of the past which I found unethical and borderline illegal.

It would be helpful to have clarity around this as there are about 25 leases expiring between January of 2022 and December of 2025.

the lease is currently held by the Trump Organization in an arrangement that has been fraught with legal and ethical questions.

And so Mr. Pizor and Mr. Wipf, do you agree with that, that the banks and financial institutions and other agencies should have that choice? And if you do not agree with it, why?

Most consumers really do not understand the significance of what LIBOR means and the transition away from it.

And when you talk about choice, Mr. Giancarlo--and thank you for those comments--choice based on what? I mean, whose decision? Who gets to determine the rate? How do you determine that choice?

Well, and is not the point here also to guard against any type of manipulation, like we have seen in the past with LIBOR?

So many firms were fined only a dollar, only a dollar, with no redress provided to people who lost money.

It is truly important to have leadership that sees its job as protecting people from unfair, abusive, and deceptive practices in financial products.

I appreciate your comments.

Thank you also for working with me to curb the unfair practices that affect some franchise business investors.

franchisees in this country have been beat up on for too long, and we need to make sure that they have the ingredients for success