Maxine Waters

What I have discovered is we don't have enough-- many of our small businesses that are involved in pre-bid conferences to understand what the opportunities are for contracting.

Do you think that Chairwoman Beatty and I should try and put together direct funding of some kind to develop more incubators?

I would like to know more about incubators. I believe that we need a lot of incubators.

One of the things that I believe in is that we have to do more to help our small businesses know about CDFIs, MDIs, and the resources that we are allocating to them so that they can have access to these funds.

It is so timely, it is so important, and I thank you for your leadership.

I am absolutely upset, and I am unhappy about the lack of progress that some of our cities are making despite the fact that we are doing everything that we can to get the resources to them.

I want to hear what these obstacles are, because I am not pleased at all, and we have to move the homeless off the street, and I think we can all do a better job.

I am so worried, however, that this growing political movement by these anti-vaccine activists and pro-Trump Republicans, it's undermining their work.

And so we had to make sure that we retrieved them before they expire. And we just need to come up with some ways of helping countries like Haiti.

Well, thank you so very much.

This is a very, very needed hearing that you are doing today because there's so much information out there, a lot of it sometimes conflicting.

I am committed to ensuring highest returns for consumers and retirees, and we have heard today that diverse asset managers perform as well, if not better, than non-diverse asset managers.

The committee's report makes it clear that these firms have much work to do in transparency, and accountability is the path to progress.

I am so proud that your efforts have culminated in yet another groundbreaking report, this time on the diversity of our nation's largest investment firms.

Since Democrats have been in power, we have delivered for the American public.

As this pandemic continues, the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats remain hard at work to provide protections and essential relief to individuals, families, and small businesses across the country.

The fight for LGBTQ+ rights is far from over.

Financial institutions have long been a top target for cybercriminals.

Earned wage access may create a cycle of unsustainable borrowing as employees who should be paid a viable wage borrow on their own hard-earned income.

Unfortunately, at a critical time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration left consumers exposed.

The CFPB was founded on the principle of protecting consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices in the financial marketplace.

Mr. Chopra, you have inherited an agency that was undermined by the Trump Administration, which actively worked to reduce consumer protections and enable predatory behavior against the most vulnerable.

OSHA totally abandoned its mission. They went AWOL. They looked the other way.

We understand the Biden administration is providing $1.4 billion in pandemic assistance to coronavirus-impacted food workers.

I am so pleased that you're holding this hearing, because, at the height of the pandemic, we were hearing stories about what was happening to many of our essential and frontline workers.