Maxine Waters

Their excuses are not new and are laden with long-standing, unfounded biases against diverse-owned asset managers who perform as well or better than their White-owned counterparts.

In addition to having an abysmal record of diversity within their investment firms, they have also not made it a priority to do business with diverse-owned asset managers.

Today, we are continuing to hold the financial services industry accountable for diversity and inclusion.

I will introduce the Diversity and Inclusion Data Accountability and Transparency Act.

Today, we are calling on the regulated financial entities to fully disclose the diversity there.

Diversity & inclusion (D&I) is not new.

May I inquire, through the Chair, if my colleague has any remaining speakers on his side?

The Black unemployment rate now stands at 9.9 percent; the Latinx unemployment rate at 8.5 percent; and the White unemployment rate at the 5.6 percent.

I think there's been some discussion on this already, but since the pandemic began, more than 525,000 of our fellow Americans have died from the Coronavirus.

That is one of the reasons Aristide was ousted was because he was talking about stuff like that.

I am a friend of Haiti and I have been for years and I have been through some of the better times, but all of the worst times.

The last time I was there it was April 2019, and I met with the victims of La Saline, the massacre that took place.

I understand the mulatto's elite and I understand their relationship to some of the worst people in government.

I helped to get Guy Philippe put in jail and Toto Constant that they are sent back here to the United States, who we should have kept here.

Well, I think it's very important, particularly important for Obama, who was a respected president of the United States, who people believe when they hear from him.

It is absolutely unthinkable and unconscionable that they would organize openly to talk about how they're going to intimidate at the polling place with so-called watchers.

It is simply voter intimidation, where they're talking about having over 50,000 volunteers who are going to be poll watchers that's being organized by the president's son. They're simply targeting minority communities, targeting low-income…

What they're simply saying is, they're going to organize and use the tactics of intimidation for voter suppression. That's basically what they're describing.

Disparities in homeownership and home equity are key drivers of the racial wealth gap.

The discriminatory lending practices of the 20th Century continue to affect minority communities long after they are repealed.

I want all of us to pay attention to what is happening in Texas and to do what is necessary to be able to give assistance to all of our people, all of the families in Texas who are experiencing this very, very difficult time.

I will also convene a hearing to hear testimony from the regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Importantly, my committee will support our President's effort to roll out a comprehensive Federal plan to address the pandemic by considering how to bolster the authorities under the Defense Production Act to ensure our frontline workers…

I have been threatened time and time again. The Oath Keepers, who were part of the domestic terrorists who came to the Capitol and invaded our Capitol attempted to come to my office in Los Angeles.

He absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost with this invasion, with this insurrection.