I thank my colleague and my dear friend from Pennsylvania for making this Special Order hour a priority. I know your constituents and the people of this country appreciate it. I rise today on behalf of the people across our Nation seeking…

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.

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.

Unfortunately, some colleagues across the aisle are busy trying to criticize the agency and to undermine its mission.

There is no political bias happening here.

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.

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.

We need more, not less, of the CFPB.

These racist messages were loud and clear for everyone to hear, and it bore out in the data.

It is unconscionable, and our most-vulnerable workers and families cannot afford to wait for you to realize the harm that you were doing.

Engineering a recession to bring inflation under control is not the right strategy, especially at a time when we are seeing inflation cool in real time.

The most devastating impacts will be to our most-vulnerable populations: veterans, the elderly, low-income workers, and Black and Brown workers.