I hope we can continue to have dialog on it because I think it is really, really important.

I certainly understand the need to squeeze Maduro, but I hope that the White House has thought through the potential impact.

When President Trump signed what I call the millionaire welfare bill, he weakened the low-income tax credits, which has been the primary tool in promoting affordable housing.

I watched people line up in a peaceful way and waited for hours to vote, and elected Hugo Chavez.

I saw recall elections, and Hugo Chavez allowed the democratic process to continue, and he faced those recall elections and won, fair and square.

Please put an end to family separation. Please do whatever possible to bring healing to the families torn apart by this policy.

Our committee is powerful not only because it touches our country's largest companies and Wall Street financial institutions but because its focus is to promote the economic well-being of Main Street, consumers, and investors.

Chairwoman Waters has set an ambitious agenda for the Financial Services Committee, which I look forward to working on and advancing.

Democracy is the key for me. And I have got a deep and long history with Venezuela.

I was part of a bipartisan delegation. It was Cass Ballenger from North Carolina, Bill Delahunt from Massachusetts, and myself who engaged with then-President Hugo Chavez.

I am very pleased to be an original cosponsor of the chairlady's Ending Homelessness Act, which would provide over $13 billion in programs.

I saw back then that individuals who were poor, who had never had anything from any other government, never any consideration, where I was on the ground to see that they, for the first time, were getting schools and hospitals, and getting…

There hasn't been this attractiveness to it because of this millionaire welfare plan.

I urge you to pass measures to eliminate racial and gender discrimination in small business lending.

I do not like the fact that there is no democracy in Saudi Arabia. I do not like the fact that there is no democracy in North Korea.

And as certain CIA evidence has now been revealed, we, the day after the coup, acknowledged the coup government.

I am concerned about the conversations that the President is having with the threat of sending military into Venezuela.

This subcommittee, in particular, has jurisdiction over important issues that directly impact every one of our constituents--issues that keep many parents up at night as they consider their family's finances.