I don't believe that these proxy advisory firms are handing down edicts from on high, and, frankly, I don't believe the government should be either.

It is a hearing on environmental sustainable governance, but it is really about anti-ESG.

Every day, our country grows more diverse, and it is about time that the C-suites and our boardrooms in corporate America caught up to the country with which they hope to conduct business.

We can't wait decades to sort this out, I agree with the chairman.

Congress and this subcommittee specifically have a real opportunity now to improve space efficiency in our Government portfolio.

We need to remember that GSA doesn't set Federal work policies. They don't have the authority to demand that Federal employees return to their desk.

If we are going to begin to limit the ability of shareholders to affect the corporations they own, then are they truly owners?

I would just argue that social policy is economic policy. It is a business imperative. It is a reality.

I know the importance of diversity. It is a strength.

And we are having a hearing that would do what? Attempt to take that free choice away from the party that claims to be a ballot free to vote.

While I disagree with the posture of the hearing, these are issues that are actually imperative to our financial sector and really are a business imperative.

Thank you, Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus- McCormick and Congressman Jonathan Jackson, for co-chairing tonight's Special Order Hour. I rise today with my colleagues of the Congressional Black Caucus to address the recent Supreme Court…

Do you know anything about Cities like Detroit, New York, or Chicago, where working-class people are literally suffering because we do nothing about climate?

This whole, 'ESG,' whatever, debate, is a fabricated political issue.

Why would we deny wide swaths of investors the information they care about when they are making investment decisions?

Attorney General Ellison, can you touch on the ways that ESG disclosures promote long-term value creation instead of risky or short-term profit-seeking initiatives?

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I am prepared to close, Mr. Chair, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to see bipartisan support for my commonsense amendment to support first-time home buyers across the country. I look forward to working…