Nikema Williams

I was so incredibly excited that the CFPB announced a rulemaking process to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports.

The good analysis is talking to Main Street America. The banks are nervous. The banks are already getting scared to death of this.

Earlier this year I sent you a letter with my colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr. Meuser, which expressed our legitimate concerns that Basel III will significantly impact Americans' ability to access reliable credit and will increase overall…

I have been actively working with members on this committee and the Committee on Small Business to be the voice for Main Street in the rulemaking process, Main Street America, what our country is all about.

I am very troubled by recent reports of sexual harassment and a toxic workplace culture at the FDIC.

I also want to applaud our banking regulators for finalizing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule.

I want to take this opportunity to applaud our nation's regulators.

This is why I am co-leading Ranking Member Cleaver's Good DEED Act that addresses title theft...

We can't continue to allow something as precious and hard-earned as someone's home to go unprotected.

Now more than ever, with climate change causing more frequent and more damaging flooding, Congress and this committee should be working to reauthorize and strengthen the NFIP.

Can you also explain to us in detail what the impact of a government shutdown would be on marginalized communities that rely on the NFIP?

These are policy decisions, and while my Republican colleagues can act like climate change is not real, people in marginalized communities, myself included, don't have that luxury.

Congress and this committee should be working to reauthorize and strengthen the NFIP.

Low-income Americans are more likely to suffer from the consequences of flooding, tropical storms, and other extreme weather.

By a show of hands, how many of you think we should stop lurching from deadline to deadline with the NFIP and instead pass a long-term reform and reauthorization bill?

I believe in science, and I know that climate change is real and has a real impact on our constituents and on our economy.

By a show of hands, how many of you think it will be a terrible idea to allow the NFIP to expire?

Yes, we are once again rapidly approaching a potential government shutdown, and it seems like every month in this Republican-controlled House, we are faced with yet another preventable crisis after another, putting our national security…

In September, not only did Republican brinkmanship here in the House bring us to the verge of a government shutdown, but it also brought us precariously close to an expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program.

I am also concerned about the continued push that I hear from some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to pull back from the United States' role in protecting democracy and facilitating global cooperation.

It is our responsibility to ensure that our foreign policy not only stands up for marginalized people, but holds accountable those facilitating the financing of terrorism.

Extreme MAGA Republicans pose a real threat to our national security when things happen like kicking out their own Speaker, and a 22-day lapse without a Speaker.

I have been getting texts, calls, and emails from rabbis and other members of the Jewish community in my district in Atlanta urging Congress to take action since October 7th.

Limiting the input of marginalized people by placing all of the power in the hands of those who already hold it is nothing new.

This hearing is a prime example that they are trying to forcibly limit, once again, the voices of marginalized people, and direct the power to board members who share their policy positions and views.