Maxine Waters

A special recognition to Congresswoman and Chair of the Committee Maxine Waters for being a strong, vocal, and persistent champion for our community.

California was shortchanged.

Those drivers leave people with severe economic disparities and capacities within our housing market and our job market.

African Americans were blocked out of home ownership through those programs, and the wealth-building of the 20th Century that occurred left African-American households with one-tenth of the wealth of white households in this country.

Federal policy instituted redlining, instituted housing segregation, and HUD policy enforced it for decades in the 20th Century.

We cannot address homelessness without simultaneously addressing structural and institutional racism in America.

If we neglect to address the root cause of housing affordability... we will not get ahead of this crisis.

That is an extraordinary number of extremely low-income people hanging on by their fingertips.

However, much more needs to be done, including passing legislation like the Ending Homelessness Act into law at the Federal level.

That is why I have introduced this bill, the Ending Homelessness Act, legislation that would provide over $13 billion in funding to ensure every person experiencing homelessness in America has a place to call home.

We need a bold and comprehensive response at the Federal, State, and local level to address the homelessness crisis.

We are in a national homelessness crisis.

If I may interrupt you, I think you said you do direct some of the Measure H money toward capital?

Give me an example of that.

How much money have you spent on rental subsidies?

I am concerned that this proposed merger would ultimately not be beneficial for the consumers or the communities that these two banks currently serve.

Bank mergers of this scale are a serious matter with implications for the broader economy that warrant scrutiny by Congress.

I am concerned that if this merger goes forward, it will create yet another megabank that is too big to manage and that poses a risk to our financial system.

Will you stop kind of dancing around this question and commit here, in this committee, before the duly elected Representatives of the American people, to a moratorium until Congress enacts an appropriate legal framework to ensure that…

I inquire through the Chair if my colleague has any remaining speakers on his side.

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

I urge Chairman Powell and other Federal Reserve Board Governors not to submit to the high-pressure tactics of this President.

It is essential that the Federal Reserve maintain its independence from the Executive Branch.

I believe that what Facebook is planning raises serious privacy, trading, national security, and monetary policy concerns.

There is no empirical evidence to support the fact that doesn't exist, a fact that women, members of the LGBTQ community, and people of color, no empirical evidence supporting a notion that they cannot lead these organizations.