Maxine Waters

Strength of the dollar is a barrier right now. Workforce considerations are very real for our small businesses.

You are going to have to be our best advocates.

They are going to get turned down. They are going to be suspected of not telling the truth. They are going to be ignored. And so this is a problem.

And so, again, we don't want to make the same mistakes that we made, missing these vulnerable populations and not getting the vaccinations or the testing done in a timely manner.

Thank you very much, Mr. Clyburn, for this meeting on this subject. I have been reading as much as I possibly can about Long COVID, and it seems as if, once again, the vulnerable populations in this country, who have not had access to…

Calling something, 'best interest,' doesn't make it so.

This fiduciary standard is the gold standard to which all financial professionals who offer personalized advice to investors must adhere.

The Black/White homeownership gap is at a 120-year high, and the megabanks are reportedly denying Black homeowners...

Under my leadership, committee Democrats shut down the Trump Administration's efforts to undermine the law's original intent.

Venture capital funding for new fintech companies goes overwhelmingly to those funded by White men.

Research shows that companies led by diverse senior leadership outperform those that are led primarily by White male leaders.

My bill would authorize $100 billion for a new grant program to provide assistance of up to 10 percent of the purchase price of a home to first-time, first-generation homebuyers.

Everybody knows that does not make good sense. Nobody wants inflation.

Maxine Waters... wherever these people show up, you push back on them, you tell them they are not welcome anymore anywhere.

I think a pilot program may be too small at this point, but I do think that we have to start incrementally.

A decade after we passed the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, Congress must institute reforms that improve the long-term stability of the program.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a key part of the Federal Government's strategy to be better prepared in the phase of climate change.

I have drafted legislation and have encouraged the SEC to provide investors with better information about which companies are accommodating the disabled community.

Disabled people are disproportionately at risk of being homeless and living in poverty, and Black, indigenous, or Latinx people are at even greater risk.

It is unfortunate that the financial services and housing markets do not adequately serve persons with disabilities.

A decade later, does S&P's rating criteria still stipulate that S&P will only provide ratings for bond insurers if S&P also rates every underlying issuance of that bond insurer?

S&P deserves no praise, however, for withdrawing a proposal it never should have put forward.

Thank you for holding this hearing, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have long called for robust oversight of the bond rating agencies, particularly after Wall Street's and the financial market's overreliance on the often-erroneous credit ratings of just three agencies directly contributed to the 2008…

I commend your recent efforts to crack down on large financial firms that repeatedly break the law and harm individual consumers and working families.