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Madam Speaker, let me just share some numbers with you from respective States across the country. The number of TPS holders, for example, in the State of California, over 50,000 of them; in your home State of Florida, Madam Speaker, over…
We designed the CFPB to be an independent organization, outside the influence of Congress and, most importantly, from the Executive Branch.
Have you conducted official CFPB business from within the White House since you have been sworn in?
Has Mr. Mulvaney or any other person from inside the Trump Administration given you a directive that you felt interfered with your authority as an independent regulator?
More than 70,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone.
Has the President given you any directive that you felt interfered with your authority as an independent regulator?
It is absolutely inexcusable that the administration did not bother to issue a National Drug Control Strategy during the first two years.
Just this week Carolyn Maloney, Jennifer Wexton, Steny Hoyer, and I introduced the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act to guarantee paid maternity and paternity leave for Federal employees.
Government comes in last among developed Nations when it comes to paid parental leave, and it is a benefit critical to starting a healthy family.
I am extremely concerned that actions taken since President Trump assumed office have undermined these central pillars of the organization.
I ask unanimous consent that the Views and Estimates be considered as read and open for amendment in its entirety.
One of the biggest security threats confronting our country is the debt and deficit.
Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright). Representative Cartwright is from Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District.
I urge the Committee to serve as an example to the rest of us on how to work together.
ICE's policy of denying in-person hearings when immigrants' liberty, family unity and potential exile is at stake is a cruel extension of the Federal administration's aggressive efforts to deny immigrants equal justice and due process.