Maxine Waters

Thank you so much, Joy. As I listen to AOC, my heart went out to her because I know what she was experiencing, and particularly when she connected with the trauma that she had experienced when she was sexually abused. And so she described…

This hearing must also focus our attention on minority-owned businesses.

Reviving programs like the State Small Business Credit Initiative could provide targeted relief.

Small and minority-owned businesses are the heart of our economy.

I have been threatened time and time again.

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

I do believe that the president of the United States, Trump, has organized and worked in a way that, even after he's not serving as a president, that he believes that he's going to have control over a significant population in this country…

I fully expected the president to do this.

We're going to override the President's veto on the Defense Protection Act -- Production Act.

Everything about the President has defined him as someone who will abuse presidential power.

Well, basically, we're going to take the president up on his offer to provide $2,000 for each of the heads of households, you know, because it was not done in the COVID response bill.

It is not enough. And it's been too long in coming. And many people are hurting. We have people who are hungry. This food insecurity is rampant all over the United States of America. And so we have got to start right away with the new…

We want him out. And we keep hearing these rumors about everything that he's doing to try and stay in. We have even heard rumors that he said he's not leaving. We want him out. And to tell you the truth, I don't know exactly what you do…

It is just impossible to really understand why they will not cooperate with transition. We know that the president of the United States has this relationship with Putin and Russia and the oligarchs of Russia. We also know that the…

It is absolutely unpatriotic. It is absolutely unconscionable. It is absolutely unheard of for the oligarchs, for the head of our government, as we're now referring to them, to stand in line first.

And what I believe is the pro-democracy side of this coalition can never again lose the presidential election to the pro-autocracy side because we may not have another election after that one.

It's shocking. It is absolutely shocking, that they would continue in their efforts to do what I consider the highest form of voter suppression.

I would advise the President to get involved and get off the golf course.

The law does not say that, and even the actions of my Republican colleagues belie that novel interpretation.

It is foolish and reckless to take away emergency lending options at this time.

We have to just keep pushing. We have to keep talking. We have to try to make people understand the dangers that we all are confronted with.

But, of course, this president has disappointed us at every turn. I wish I could say that I'm surprised at what he's doing. This way that he is trying to make people believe that, somehow, he actually won the election and that the…

We have to keep pushing. We have to keep talking. We have to try to make people understand the dangers that we all are confronted with.

Now we have got a president-elect and a vice president who's going to take this country in another direction, and create the kind of change and appreciation for diversity and talent that will help this democracy to be stronger.

Well, you know, Joy, we have always believed that this was a country that would welcome immigrants. And we have always known that with them come talent. With them come a commitment to come to the United States and to be a part of a…