Maxine Waters

Congressman Bobby Scott and Maxine Waters who were champions in advocating for my release.

I would like to thank Chairman Powell for his testimony today.

I am, however, disappointed in the Fed's efforts to deregulate megabanks.

I remain very concerned about the President's efforts to interfere with the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) independent monetary policy.

Trump continues to squander this inherited economy.

I am very concerned about what is happening with public housing in this country.

Let's be clear: Affordable housing is infrastructure.

I do not trust all of this yet.

I oppose these efforts and will continue to fight to preserve the homes of public housing residents.

When Trump's acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, was running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), he did everything he could for predatory payday lenders.

This anti-consumer rule is just the latest to benefit predatory payday lenders.

American consumers used to be able to look to their regulators to protect them from these kinds of predatory schemes. Not so under the Trump Administration, where consumer protection takes a back seat to consumer predation.

Even if a State, like my home State of California, has passed a law setting a usury rate cap, this rule would allow lenders to ignore the law and to import high-rate, high-risk, and otherwise illegal loans back into the State.

Our next speaker is a sponsor of one of the bills in H.R. 3621. She will have an opportunity to correct the ranking member, who indicated the bill would remove negative credit after 2 years. It does not. She will clear that up and make…

This really should be a bipartisan bill, but my friends on the opposite side of the aisle have not been willing to really work in a bipartisan way. His bill was rejected in the Rules Committee because it was not germane. If he agrees with…

If we have to subpoena the information, we will do that.

I don't think that Mr. Otting is serious about his willingness to cooperate with us.

You have decided you will work with no one, that this is your proposal, this is what you want.

For Congress to ignore the specific words of the Constitution itself and substitute its own judgments would be for Congress to do what it is accusing the president of doing, and no one is above the law, not the president, and not Congress.

Impeachment is whatever Congress says it is. There is no law.

And let me just say, Mr. Chairman, that fresh on our minds is the march that took place in Charlottesville, where we had white supremacists who were marching and chanting, 'You will not replace us. Jews will not replace us.'

America cannot tackle the threat if we refuse to recognize it, and I am eager to hear from the panel about what Congress should do to act forcefully where Trump has refused to do so.

President Trump's language that there are, 'fine people on both sides,' and his willfully blind statements asserting that there is no global rise in white nationalism should concern all of us.

Gentrification has exacerbated the rental housing crisis in some communities.

More than 10 million low-income households are severely cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 50 percent of their earnings on rent.