Maxine Waters

Together, we worked tirelessly to enact reform that provided much needed rate relief for thousands of homeowners.

Short-term extensions cause lapses in the program that place communities at risk and undermine our housing market.

Indeed, it was only 7 short years ago that our economy lost nearly $16 trillion in household wealth.

Unfortunately, many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to have caught a convenient case of amnesia about this important mandate.

Please know that Democrats are committed to full funding for the SEC because the Commission provides the first line of protection for investors.

I am just pleased to learn from my staff that our companies are doing a better job of reporting, that--and it is working, and that from the first report to the second report, we see a marked improvement.

And we believe that, of course, the entire continent has been exploited for far too long and that the people have not benefited from the rich resources in many of the parts of the continent.

I served on the conference committee of Dodd-Frank, and I worked with Barney Frank on this issue.

We trained you in California.

It is about understanding, a deep understanding and support, and in the final analysis a lot of love.

So that motivates me to be on the side of the least of these.

Somehow, people don't understand or refuse to accept what poverty does to children and families.

I will never forget that picture.

Let's build on those successes and gear our legislation and funding towards building on those successes.

If you have the flexibility, we have to stop putting these grandmothers out of these units...

We all have a responsibility to be about the business of economic development, opening up contracting opportunities.

If we would fund transportation by the Federal Government in a reasonable way, we could rebuild our roads and our streets.

We have to increase minimum wage. Everybody is talking about getting to $15, et cetera.

I want to close the wealth gap, and I have come to understand very clearly that it is not simply through wages.

We are a long way from replacing public housing in New Orleans, which is what I so staunchly advocated for post-Katrina.

We cannot get around the fact that we need dollars, we need money in public housing.

It is not so much private contractors; it was your governor, it was your State that did not trust the citizens.

As Congresswoman Waters alluded to earlier.

I introduced legislation, H.R. 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Act of 2007, to help reestablish housing options.

We worked together with housing advocates to shine a bright light on problems with recovery efforts.