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David Scott

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David Albert Scott is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 13th congressional district since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Throughout his tenure, Scott has focused on issues such as economic development, healthcare, and education, advocating for policies that benefit his constituents in Georgia. He has also been involved in various committees, contributing to discussions on national and local issues.

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Oct 22, 2019

We in Congress have worked hard, for the past 50 years, to eliminate the very racial discrimination practices that your platform is guilty of.

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Oct 22, 2019

I support vaccinations of children and adults, but I also support open and frank communication of the risks of vaccination.

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Oct 22, 2019

Mr. Zuckerberg, thank you for joining us today. Back during the 1960s and 1970s, Congress passed a series of laws intended to stamp out discrimination in lending and housing.

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Oct 22, 2019

But Mr. Zuckerman, I have here HUD's report, and it clearly says that your platform allows advertisers to restrict certain users from viewing ads on your platform.

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Oct 22, 2019

I believe Facebook is a great innovation that has much potential for good, that we welcomed an innovation together with the controversies that it spawned.

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Oct 22, 2019

One of my bills is in it, the Firewall Act, which would make sure that foreign money would not be allowed to buy online political ads in our country.

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Oct 22, 2019

Today, you testified that you believe in giving people a voice, and Mr. Zuckerberg, is Facebook able to assure us that it will support users' fair and open discussions and communications related to the risk as well as the benefits of…

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Oct 21, 2019

In my hometown in Bartow County, Georgia, we just posted in August the lowest unemployment rate in the history of that county.

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Oct 21, 2019

Let me just commend you. This is an extraordinarily important and critical issue.

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Oct 21, 2019

We need to ensure that there is a fund created for MDIs to support financial literacy and alternatives to predatory products.

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Oct 21, 2019

I must close with thanking, again, Chairwoman Waters, for putting issues of diversity and inclusion at the heart of our committee's work.

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Oct 21, 2019

There hasn't been one chartered in 20-plus years.

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Oct 21, 2019

It doesn't seem like 10 years, but it is about time we kind of look back and see where we are now.

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Oct 21, 2019

I think it was Representative Loudermilk who mentioned that it is death by a thousand cuts.

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Oct 21, 2019

The energy, the thrust, the urgency of this government to respond to this is not.

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Oct 21, 2019

These issues cut across parties and districts, and I believe that our work here matters to the vulnerable communities we all represent in Congress.

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Oct 21, 2019

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the reforms of the GSEs. You are looking for that running car.

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Oct 21, 2019

We are trying to find some ways to address that, but what it is doing is, it is pushing those new employees to either take long commutes from other communities.

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Oct 21, 2019

I appreciate, Dr. Calabria, the efforts to retain capital, because we do need to have that rainy day fund if and when we do get into the next financial crisis.

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Oct 21, 2019

If they did it for the slaves coming out of the Civil War, 4.5 million, surely, we can do it to really solve the problem of getting to 58 million underbanked.

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Oct 21, 2019

There are 58 million unbanked and underbanked people.

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Oct 21, 2019

We cannot allow minority banks to disappear. And we must work in earnest to tackle the challenges of banking discrimination in lending and foster genuine diversity in the banking sector.

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Oct 21, 2019

The American people are depending on us, and I sincerely hope that you three gentlemen will open our eyes to much of what we are now only dimly aware.

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Oct 16, 2019

Why would a company, any company, make the choice to give back money to their shareholders rather than making an investment in the future growth of the company?

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