We need to modernize, and if we did, we would have a lot less people making this dangerous journey to access our asylum system at the border.

I have been a huge advocate of CDFIs as part of the financial network, and again bipartisan.

Now, Donald Trump's rhetoric has been dividing us and stoking anti-immigrant hate, I believe, since he first came down that escalator in 2015...

Asylum exists for an important historical reason. It is a legacy of World War II.

This is thanks in large part to important steps Congress and the Biden-Harris administration have taken to increase the housing supply.

We have to fix that. That is the reality.

For over two decades, Greta has been a true champion of affordable and accessible housing.

We have got to make sure the GSEs, because of some of their tax provisions, are now able to access.

It seems to me the FBI has always been a fairly conservative culture and certainly a right-of-center political bent.

We all know, you know, racial wealth gap in this country in many ways is due to the failure to have true equality in terms of home ownership.

Now, 2 weeks ago, during a bizarre debate performance, we saw, of course, the former President repeat manufactured conspiracies about immigrants.

This notion that--the notion of the LIFT Act, which we had put out, was to say, you know, if you are a first generation, first time homebuyer within certain income strata and you qualify for a 30-year mortgage...

Key to addressing the shortage of units and bringing down costs for families is, as my friend Speaker Shekarchi from Rhode Island would say, production, production, production.

the outcome of hearings of this Committee has supported my claim that from the very beginning of the creation of this Select Subcommittee that his has been the gaslighting to the ninth degree, a tremendous projection of the highest order

There are differences of opinion around this table and at the witness table.

this is not pre-1990s apartheid South Africa, the country of your birth. This is America and there are more of us Americans that love our diversity, our rule of law, than there are of you who would like us all to be sycophants to your ego.

So, while we are bemoaning the alleged mistreatment of certain individuals, including some here today, which may or may not be true, we are escalating it with actual threats that could lead to violence, even death.

I would just ask, Mr. Chair, if we could stick to some decorum and not disparage witnesses or characterize their testimony.