Maxine Waters

There's some confusion about what is excluded or included. As I understand it, a liquor store that just sells just juice or milk would not be considered a store that sells food. Is that correct? Is that your understanding? I yield to the…

It is very helpful. With the liquor stores, they help to stimulate the economy. They sell all of these foodstuffs. They hire a few people. Some families have three and four family members. So, yes, I would ask that you exclude liquor…

Exportation of jobs offshore for cheap labor is increasingly a highlighted issue in this country.

U.S. innovation policy includes patent law, antitrust, tax and immigration. I don't see it separately.

The real problem I am running into is the number of schools that the young people end up going to while they are homeless, and they lose credit.

I do not think the systems are working the way we think they are from up here.

I think one thing that there is a consensus on is that legislators, Members of Congress, are not exempted from insider trading.

Now is the time to strengthen FHA, not to weaken it.

I do oppose any attempt to use the current challenges facing FHA as an excuse to dismantle, defund or otherwise destabilize this critical housing program.

I just want to be clear that FHA remains the only source of mortgage credit for most Americans today.

I worked across the aisle with then-Ranking Members Capito and Bachus on the FHA Reform Act, which passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 406-4.

Well, I guess my first thought is the reservoirs were built for flood control. And that is the way--that is--should be the primary purpose.

I view any proposed changes in IP and copyright law as an opportunity to examine whether changes will expand opportunities for women and minority entrepreneurs.

The practices of our community banks had little to do with causing our financial crisis. Therefore, while I believe that we should take a smart approach toward the regulation of small banks in order to spur economic activity and produce…

We cannot solve the problems of today with the failed approaches of yesterday.

Many of us are very, very sympathetic to the homeowners who are underwater.

I thank you. That is well said. You are absolutely correct. And the young people are waiting on us to act. They are burdened with debt. They can't get careers started. They can't get families started. This will be very helpful to them. The…

Thank you very much. I'm very appreciative, Congressman, for your taking this time out on the floor this evening and sharing this time with your colleagues to talk about the American Jobs Act. What I'm going to say will take a little bit…

I am very concerned about whether or not H.R. 3010 would rewrite the Administrative Procedure Act and change the way that all United States agency rulemaking is conducted for the sole purpose of making it nearly impossible for any agency…

What it does is it allows us to focus more of our limited resources on the high priority cases.

It would be what? In a legal limbo.

Meanwhile the taxpayers are paying the cost for retention of everybody in these removal proceedings.

The FDIC was closing them so fast they couldn't keep up with them.

It is a good program. I am glad President Bush signed it into law.

We have discovered that the weeds had grown up, animals had taken over some, on and on and on, and it was driving down the value of other homes in the neighborhood.