Like Congressman McGovern said, childhood hunger is completely solvable--completely solvable.
There is no one committee that deals with hunger here, and there is no one committee that deals with nutrition here in C...
I want to end my remarks by quoting someone I mentioned at the beginning, and that is Senator Bob Dole, a Republican fro...
On the question of environmental justice, Congresswoman Cori Bush and I have introduced an Environmental Justice Mapping...
I agree with you, 100 percent. I just think this is something that is relatively easy for the industry to deal with, but...
People used to say hunger is a nonpartisan issue, and I really want to stand here today... to say that we all need to be...
The people who are hungry, who are dealing with hunger, deserve respect. They deserve dignity.
If we have the political will, we can solve it.
We can end hunger in this country. So please join me in this effort.
The idea of protecting borrowers from usury dates back to the Code of Hammurabi, to the Bible, to the Koran...
I think what you are saying to me is the OCC will be tough on banks.
Under the previous Administration, banking regulators wrote rules the way the banking industry wanted, created loophole ...
And because banks have an exemption from State usury caps, there would essentially be no limit as to what the payday len...
Well, I see what you are trying to do with the language about who is originating.
The new rule you have put in place says let us look at the paperwork, and if the bank's name is on the paper, that is wh...
Under your rule, if a payday lender arranges a loan for a consumer, it is subject to State usury laws.
It is still not that little boy or the millions of people who face hunger today who should be ashamed. I am ashamed. We ...
I just wish that the FTC now would use the penumbra of the authority of the Federal Trade Commission Act to protect cons...
