Kweisi Mfume

It is time to get it right.

The Bureau knows this is not enough time. We all know it is not enough time.

What concerns me is that if we don't seriously address it that we could see this pandemic actually exacerbate this inequality in our Nation.

These are real, real stories. And when the mail slows down, it has a disparate impact on communities, and particularly on communities of color around this country.

I also funded the post office because it deserves to be funded. It's a national treasure. It's a national service.

I appreciate the gentleman's kind and overly gracious remarks. I appreciate also his sense of history and for what I think today is being displayed as a bipartisan effort to draw attention to and to reconcile a very real problem. So I will…

We learned that the structure and the implementation of PPP continues, as has been said, to disadvantaged, smaller businesses, specifically businesses of color.

We needed transparency. We requested that you immediately begin publishing the demographic data on PPP recipients.

It is disheartening for me to look back over that period of time and to recognize that many of the same arguments advocating on behalf of Black and Brown and Korean businesses for fairness and equity are still being made.

There is, from where I sit, a great deal of skepticism in many circles across the Nation from people who see the awarding of PPP funds and the rollout of this project as being discriminatory

I want to thank you for your relentless efforts at trying to bring about fairness and equity to this issue

There is no reason in God's world that there should be that kind of a disparity so obvious in a state and a district, in particular, that diverse.

People are concerned, Secretary Mnuchin and Madam Administrator, that what they see does not gel with what they have been led to believe.

We have had a lot of talk on this floor about this bill and people pointing fingers and saying: It doesn't do this. What it does do, though, is to provide real support for American heroes: our cops, our teachers, our firemen, our first…

If the president's new mantle and measurement for dialogue is to only talk and to only meet with those individuals or organizations that agree with him, then we are getting closer to the previous regime in Baghdad than we are to a…

I know that words are inadequate on my part to tell you how much you mean to me as a person, and why I will miss this institution, not because of the partisan bantering that takes place, but because of the genuine kind of dialog and…

Could the gentleman again talk about the phenomenal success that the program experienced in Maryland? Actually it is phenomenal wherever it occurred. It began in that State.

Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer this amendment to H.R. 728, an amendment that would continue the Drug Court Program as enacted by the Violent Crime and Prevention Act of 1994. The Drug Court Program included in the list of programs targeted…

Due to a scheduling conflict in association with the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I was forced to miss the vote that was taken today, Tuesday, January 17, 1995. Had I been here, I would have voted ``aye'' to…

Let me just say as we close this debate that the argument by the gentleman from Florida [Mr. McCollum] carries merit. I believe, also, that you can make sensible arguments on both sides of this issue, and you can be looked at as being…

It is my understanding that the nonprofits now, through the files that they have to disclose with IRS, are engaged in much more disclosure that the for-profit organizations, and I think what nonprofits are asking for, everything from the…

Clearly, one of the greatest hypocrisies is the notion that we can somehow have equal voting rights and equal protection under the law as it pertains to the right to vote while at the same time denying in every legal way we can the right…

Do I still understand, as we close the date, the willingness of the gentleman to revisit in the form of hearings may of the concerns that I and Mr. Wynn and Mr. Kennedy have tried to articulate in the amendments we offered previously?

Would the gentleman be willing to revisit this whole matter after we have had an opportunity to see what has taken place over 6 months or 12 months, to ascertain whether or not in fact there is a pattern of closing branches in rural areas…

This is where the gentleman and I have a disagreement, because I think if something is bad, and if we agree that it is bad, and closing banks clearly is bad in rural communities and in low-income communities who do not have access, then I…