Maxine Waters

Well, let me tell you, Joy, we’re all disappointed, very disappointed that we could get not -- we could not get bipartisan support for a commission. You know, for them to resist, the Republicans, to resist a commission, speaks to whether…

The judiciary -- Democratic Judiciary Committee staff report clearly establishes that the state of Ohio has not met its obligation to conduct a fair election. Ohio`s partisan secretary of state Mr. Kenneth Blackwell, I`m ashamed to say, an…

I credit you, along with others who worked so very hard to get us, you know, past this pandemic and to get us back on the road so that our economy can do what we know it can do.

I think that is what is keeping some of our people from wanting to come back to work. They're looking for better wages. They're looking for better opportunities.

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. McBath). The gentlewoman from California has 16\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time until the gentleman from Michigan yields back.

I am also respectfully requesting a meeting to clarify the role that each agency tasked with ensuring the protection of Members of Congress fulfills.

Thank you very much, Chairman Cleaver. I want to start by saying how much I appreciate how you have drawn from your experience as mayor to dive deep into Community Development Block Grants, and to provide leadership on needed reforms.

As cryptocurrencies grow exponentially, I have organized a working group of Democratic Members to engage with regulators and experts to do a deep dive on this poorly-understood and minimally-regulated industry.

I am committed to, and the Supreme Court requires, ensuring that people confronting mental illness, substance addiction, or other health challenges can live in the community.

Finally, my Republican colleagues are simply wrong about the effectiveness of Housing First.

My Republican colleagues know that being fully-employed doesn't guarantee being able to afford housing.

Today's hearing has highlighted the need to move forward urgently on legislation to make Housing Choice Vouchers universally available.

I am really tired of funding a broken system, and why aren't we doing something bold like a universal voucher system?

As far as I am concerned, housing is as much a human right as education, and housing ought to be as much of an entitlement as education.

The best path to housing as a human right, to housing as an entitlement, is housing vouchers for all, which has been proposed by Chairwoman Waters.

It is nothing short of a moral outrage that our essential workers, upon whom all of us depend, increasingly cannot afford to live in a city or a country that could not survive and succeed without them.

A universal housing voucher would be very effective in terms of stimulating new housing construction.

Discrimination against the people who use these vouchers has curtailed what little progress we have made with homelessness.

We need these vouchers. Expert research shows that housing vouchers prevent homelessness.

I look forward to working with my Republican colleagues to help get the rental assistance into the hands of the American people who need it most.

I have deep concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability that is a hallmark of the SPAC process.

We should not trust them, not another minute, not another day.

Are you telling me that Robert Kadlec had nothing to do with the awarding of the contract to Emergent?

I am so pleased that you are holding this hearing, because information regarding Emergent is absolutely concerning.