"I have been extremely concerned about the Trump administration's failure to collect demographic data on PPP recipients."
"I have long championed the Community Advantage Program which leverages nonprofit, mission-oriented lenders."
"So clearly there needs to be more help for underserved businesses."
"As a major lender, can you discuss how giving the program long-term statutory authorization will lift it out of the short-term status and impact the program's effectiveness?"
"I sent a letter to SBA and Treasury asking for an official analysis of racial disparities and a plan to address this issue."
"Community financial institutions like CDFIs and MDIs have been instrumental in delivering PPP assistance to underserved communities."
"These repeated attempts to place unauthorized restrictions and conditions on congressionally appropriated funds was, of course, another attempted encroachment on Congress' power of the purse."
"Not only did this put the lives of Californians struggling to fight off a pandemic in danger, it showed blatant executive overreach."
"These are cities that were very disturbed with the Trump Administration's approach to immigration enforcement."
"Congress needs as much information as it can get from the executive branch to make responsible spending decisions."
"Last month, I led a delegation to Georgia to visit the three Asian-owned small businesses where eight people were murdered, six of them Asian women."