
So, let me ask you one more question, Secretary Austin. Knowing what we know now, if we would have stayed for one more year, would it have made a fundamental difference?
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So, let me ask you one more question, Secretary Austin. Knowing what we know now, if we would have stayed for one more year, would it have made a fundamental difference?

It is unacceptable for communities of color to bear the brunt of white supremacist violence at the hands of domestic terrorists.

It is no surprise, but egregious nonetheless, that Black-owned businesses received only 2 percent of PPP loans from the CARES Act.

In the district I represent, the Massachusetts 7th, Somali immigrants living in Roxbury are directly targeted.

The Federal Government certainly has a significant role to play in deterring and ending domestic terrorism at the hands of violent white supremacists.

I, along with many of my colleagues, have been sounding the alarm for many years about rising bank branch closures in predominantly Black and Brown communities, and the negative impact that this will have on small businesses owned by…

During the INVEST Act, I included language to ensure our nation's transit system, including ferries, is equipped with the necessary resources to combat cybersecurity attacks.

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I want to thank the chair, and I want to thank the full committee chair, Mr. DeFazio, because he has been an outstanding champion of expanding and improving upon our ferry systems.

I have had an opportunity during my time in Congress to visit quite a few prisons in Massachusetts and in my district...

The mass incarceration crisis disproportionately impacts Black and Brown communities and, therefore, these communities face collateral consequences of incarceration.

I actually had a bill that dealt with converting diesel buses in the transportation bill and converting the entire postal fleet to electric.

And we now know, from the Fed's own research, that when the economy hit choppy waters last year, those banks needed stimulus from the taxpayers.

Chair Powell, do you regret weakening the stress test?

Given the Archegos collapse, do you regret weakening the Volcker rule?

We can't play politics with the full faith and credit of the United States.

The debt limit is not about future spending. It is about meeting obligations we have already made.