"This is not the time to backtrack and to weaken regulations. Now is the time for action and to put people over polluters."
"Congress should consider the SVB collapse a wake-up call and take action."
"The 2018 deregulation law specifically made it easy for SVB and Signature Bank to engage in risky management practices."
"The dangerous and irresponsible nature of this deregulation bill was completely predictable."
"The story of SVB's collapse is the story of a Republican Administration in cahoots with the banking industry to weaken our financial regulations."
"For cities in my district like Boston, Chelsea, and Everett, the climate crisis is not an abstract, far in the future, distant problem; it is a reality here and now."
"expanding flood insurance coverage is an important tool to prevent everyone, especially low-income folks, from facing financial ruin in the event of a flood."
"In today's hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we should really be praising the work of the agency and discussing how to augment its successes for consumers all across our country."
"Unfortunately, some colleagues across the aisle are busy trying to criticize the agency and to undermine its mission."
"The history of the term dates back decades to when lenders would literally draw a red line around neighborhoods to stop Black people from moving in, as a way to maintain segregation."
"These racist messages were loud and clear for everyone to hear, and it bore out in the data."
"We need more, not less, of the CFPB."