I have introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act, and I would ask everybody on the panel to really take a look at it.

It is about government taking the role of really trying to reverse decades of discriminatory policy and turn homeownership from a possibility to an actual reality for so many of our communities.

This amendment is truly amazing to me as a longtime union organizer. It seeks to undermine the freedom of contract, the ability of employers and unions to agree on how to handle a situation freely together. The shock of giving the…

This amendment seeks to hinder workers' First Amendment right to assemble peacefully to better their workplace situation. No worker wants to go on strike. No worker wants to forgo a paycheck so they can walk a picket line, often in the…

This amendment would strike the bill's provision that allows unions to collect a fair-share fee for services they are legally required to provide, and create, in its place, a national right-to-freeload scheme. This is a blatant attempt to…

I wish I had time to rebut many arguments, like the one we just heard. The requirement that the employer share lists of the employees during a union election is decades and decades old. It hasn't changed. In any event, I am here to support…

I include in the Record a letter of support for the bill from the AFL-CIO. Legislative Alert AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 8, 2021. Dear Representative: On January 26, we wrote in support of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act…

I thank the chairman so much for his leadership. Madam Speaker, at base, what we are talking about here is whether workers in this country are free to come together and form a union. All of these amendments are designed to undermine that…

Later today we will debate the PRO Act, and we will pass the PRO Act to free up American workers to form unions and bargain collectively just because they darn well please without interference from their employer. And when we debate the…

Workers in our Nation deserve human dignity. That means the right to fight for safety and fairness in the workplace, as residents in my district know this all too well because we birthed the labor rights movement. One of the most important…

I`m a little surprised that it took us two months to see video. Frankly, this area probably has more video cameras pointed at it than most places in the country just highlights the need for a 9/11 style commission.

I am confident will continue to be successful and create more jobs.

I think that is critically important in this real conversation.

We have to make sure the rules are fair.

When commercial banks shut out Black and Brown people from lending, they are not just closing a door on homeownership.

This hearing is an important part of Congress' oversight of our capital markets, and it is also a great opportunity to reaffirm support for retail investors' participation.

to my good friend--we work together on so many things in agriculture--let me first say we all saw the devastation caused by the storm across the Midwest last year. That is why we have a strong crop insurance program in our bipartisan farm…

I rise today in support of provisions in this bill that support socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. One-fifth of all rural Americans--10.5 million people--are people of color. For Black, Native American, Hispanic and Latinx, and…