Maxine Waters

Today, this committee convenes for its first hearing of the year to examine our country's rental housing crisis.

And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Kennedy). Without objection, the gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I am also very concerned that regulators are making a brazen attempt to weaken the implementation of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) under the guise of modernization.

In rolling back important reforms put in place in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to protect consumers, investors, and the economy, regulators are opening the door to the bad practices that contributed to the…

I am very concerned that our banking regulators are following the dangerous deregulatory blueprint that the Trump Administration laid out.

They have not given you an answer about resources, and you are out there working, using your own resources to organize.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am about their advocacy because oftentimes, we accuse tenants of not being involved.

I want to thank you because you have here before you today Ms. Geraldine Collins, the board president of the National Alliance of HUD tenants.

You need to get to work on capital. You need to get to work on encouraging big banks to invest in small banks.

Let me just say to the panel, if you are wondering about our frustration, it is because this issue has plagued us for so long, and we are watching the Black banks, in particular, that are literally going out of business to the point…

This is a crisis, and regulators have failed to live up to their statutory obligations to preserve and promote MDIs.

Since 2008, the number of Black-owned banks has decreased by more than 50 percent.

Minority Depository Institutions play a vital role in serving low- to moderate-income and underbanked communities.

To the Members, I cannot express how pleased I am at the effort that was put together by Mr. McHenry to make this a bipartisan bill. I am very appreciative of that. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Michigan will be postponed. Amendment No. 19 Offered by Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma The…

I thank the gentlewoman for offering this thoughtful amendment. This amendment strengthens the bill's emphasis on small business. While we have a lot in this bill for small businesses, the gentlewoman's amendment further strengthens these…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for offering this important amendment. This amendment builds on the important work of the gentleman from New York on combating illegal opioids in this country. It ensures that those who…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I strongly oppose this amendment. This amendment undermines a carefully crafted compromise on environmental reforms, both in the underlying bill and developed by my good friend from Illinois. It…

I am prepared to close. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chair, this is a failure of bipartisan policymaking, and this is a sad day. I am not angry. I appreciate Chairwoman Waters attempting to strike a…

It is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader and a longtime supporter of Ex-Im.

This is another Member on the opposite side of the aisle, the gentleman from Arkansas, who, when we were trying to get the Bank up and running, he voted against reauthorization. He is voting against it again today. I don't know what it…

I would like to again remind Mr. Barr that between 2014 and 2020, his State received $10 million in total export value. I would also like to remind this body that he did not support reauthorization in the past. He does not do it now. I…

I would like to remind the House that the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) has 16 total exporters in his district, would support a value of $52 million. I would hope that as he opposes this bill, he is reminded that between 2014 and…

I would just like to remind this body that Mr. McHenry is one of the ones responsible for the nonreauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank before. He didn't support it then, and he doesn't support it now, and he never will because he is opposed to…