Maxine Waters

Poultry workers' lives, dignity, and humanity are more important than company profits.

I simply ask all of my colleagues, all the Members of this House, to support this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further Democratic speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time until Mrs. Wagner yields.

Help address the racial wealth and home ownership gaps

Not only is Ex-Im financing not needed, but it is often nothing more than crony capitalism, providing taxpayer-financed subsidies to some of the world's largest companies.

Increasing wealth and home ownership rates among minorities is a perfectly fine goal, but designing race-based policies and benefits is not.

The Alzheimer's Caregivers Support Act authorizes the Secretary of HHS to award grants.

I urge consideration of the bills on the agenda as a lifeline for caregivers.

We have got a real problem on our hands that we have to address.

I represent the 6.2 million Americans living with Alzheimer's.

I believe our time has been exhausted. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

If there is going to be a real effort to deal with the discrimination and the exclusion of people of color and people who are working every day but can`t afford to have rent, then we have got to spend the money in order to deal with the…

Narrow [ . . . ] the racial home ownership gap.

The objective of this program is to help address the racial wealth and home ownership gaps.

Give me a break. Yes, we could work with each other if there was some respect for the basic issues that affect people of color and poor people in this country.

How can I work with people who won't even protect voting rights for all of the people in this country?

This is our once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in our housing programs. If we do not expand our housing programs in this budget reconciliation bill, we never will.

It is going to take courage and it is going to take pressure on the locals and all of the homeowners' associations.

The government created this discrimination, and we have the opportunity to undo it.

I said, 'No, we are going to build more affordable housing in the National Housing Trust Fund.'

We must ensure that every family in America has access to the communities of their choice.

Communities across this country continue to use zoning and local control as a dog whistle to preserve the racial residential segregation.

In America today, our ZIP Code preordains our access to jobs, homeownership, affordable rent, and a child's access to quality education.

Working families and retirees, whose hard-earned savings helped fuel the capital markets, were ignored.