This is really blocking access to capital for nonprofit childcare providers to establish those affordable facilities or expand existing ones.

The chair wishes to extend its thanks to Congresswoman Wexton for her help on that.

The only thing that's unacceptable to me is for this Congress to take a pass on housing.

In the West, a majority of the land is owned by the Federal Government.

The bipartisan AHCIA would not only increase affordable housing supply by over 2 million affordable rental homes.

It has been more than 100 years, and a Latino has never served on the Federal Reserve board.

I introduced the bipartisan One Stop Shop for Small Business Licensing Act with Senator Capito.

Nobody on the committee should think that I am telling them what to do, and it has been a while, but it is a fascinating operation over there.

We are looking for really smart, really good people. And I don't necessarily care which piece of paper they have.

This legislation that I've introduced will expand the supply of affordable homes and improve access to home ownership for low- and moderate-income home buyers.

We were able to ensure 6.5 million working families could keep a roof over their heads with the emergency rental assistance that we provided.

I'm hopeful after this--we do have this group of bills that we're putting forward that really are going to make a difference here.

The availability of affordable housing is key to economic growth for any community.

The availability of affordable housing is key to economic growth for any community.

passage of which is the single most important thing Congress could do to address the severe imbalance between supply and demand for affordable rental housing.

It's like lasagna. You've got to pull all these different pieces together to make it work, and each time it's going to come out maybe a little bit differently.

We are not going to wait for something to happen and say, 'Oh, guess we ought to, you know, staff up our K-9s so we can do more sweeps.'

If we fail to build climate resiliency in the Pacific Islands, key locations like the Kwajalein Atoll that has critical missile defense capabilities, we are going to be at risk of being able to perform our warfighting missions. Full stop.