Maxine Waters

I am working and will continue to work to see that civil society is involved in getting something done.

I would like at some point in time to really talk about Haiti and the lack of attention, I think, from anywhere, in dealing with that crisis there.

Let's focus on learning from this and never allowing such reckless brinksmanship to ever occur again.

Instead of holding that hearing in a timely manner, we are holding this hearing focused on criticizing Treasury's debt management.

Republican threats to drive our economy up a cliff would have done real and quantifiable harm to our economy.

I have no further speakers. I yield myself the balance of my time. I am pleased to have worked with Chairman McHenry on this bill, and I look forward to continuing to work with him on other bills that are pro-small business and pro-capital…

I support FHFA's effort to expand access to the American Dream of homeownership.

These changes will not result in higher-credit-score borrowers subsidizing lower-credit-score borrowers.

There has to be a role for the Fed to review applications and reject them if they don't meet certain requirements.

The Federal Reserve Board the option to decline any registration of a State-approved stablecoin issuer.

I am getting from individuals who had these adjustable rate mortgages that their loans have increased over $1,000 in some cases.

The leadership of these banks must be held accountable for running their banks into the ground.

I asked for a hearing of the Full Committee.

I want to be clear that although I have withheld my objections at this time, going forward, we will not hesitate to object if this kind of coordination does not occur in advance.

While Republicans try to downplay any role that deregulation played in these regional bank failures, I was pleased when one of their witnesses at last week's hearing, Ms. Margaret Tahyar, conceded that there were regulatory improvements…

Based on what I am seeing, everybody is to blame.

It is clear that there are major consequences when cryptocurrency entities operate without robust Federal oversight and protections for customers.

We need legislative action to ensure that digital asset entities cannot operate in the shadows outside of robust Federal oversight and clear rules of the road.

Oh, that doesn't make good sense.

The NFIP is drowning in $25.5 billion in debt.

Last week, I questioned SEC Chair Gensler about whether the agency has the authorities it needs...

Despite what those across the aisle may say, we do not need to create an entirely new and special framework for crypto; we already have one.

I cannot help but ask you a few questions about the stablecoins that we are concerned about, which certainly are very important.

It is, of course, unfortunate that there was a run on the bank at Signature prompted by what we saw with SVB, but it is not the case that the failure of Signature was related to crypto.

I agree with most of our panel that we should move very quickly to establish the stablecoin bill and get that legislation going.