the racial and gender wealth gap is real, unacceptable, and actually much larger than people think.

First, Madam Speaker, I congratulate the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Garcia). I am so very proud of the work that she is doing on the Financial Services Committee. We are here today on this particular legislation, but this particular…

I thank Representative Garcia for this important piece of legislation that establishes a whistleblower program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. This program is similar to the program that was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall…

I have no additional speakers. I reserve the right to close. Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Whistleblowers provide an important function. We want to make sure that there are legal constraints on…

I am just heartbroken about what is happening in the Amazon.

The issue of climate change must be addressed in the Congress of the United States, and we must move forward in ways that we have talked about but we have not yet accomplished.

So, Chairwoman Maxine Waters, your tuition at Cal State L.A. in 1971 was the equivalent of about a thousand dollars a year.

We must stop this pointing of fingers and trying to figure out what is going on, and blaming this one or that one.

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.

You can't clean or arrest your way out of homelessness.

How much money have you spent on rental subsidies?

We have to extinguish that belief and get rid of that fantasy that there is some magic formula that within a few weeks or months, this will disappear.

This isn't about whether a model is working now. It is about whether we have the resources to actually fuel that model to success.

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

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

But I hope to give you a perspective to kind of give you some hope and some belief that this is a human-caused problem that ultimately can be a human-solved problem as well.

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.

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

Give me an example of that.

I think that if I could have a wish that would not cause me to find my way to the gates of hell, it would be that the President could live one day on Skid Row.

We believe if we are to end homelessness, we have to supply the resources to apply to the problem.

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

We are in a national homelessness crisis.

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

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