Brenda Lawrence

Given the severity of the damage to these islands, why is HUD appearing to ignore their needs?

There needs to be an investigation in either Oversight or in THUD, on discrimination in multiple places.

One of the things we have put into the appropriations for this next Congress is funding for programs for disadvantaged homeowners and renters.

I want you to know I serve on Government Oversight with my colleague here, but I also serve on Appropriations, and I serve on THUD, which is Transportation and Housing.

We really do need a congressional investigation into this abusive property tax administration that is happening not only in Detroit but most other Black cities in America.

I want to know what funds you are relying upon to help us in this fight?

The financial crisis devastated homeowners all across this country, but it significantly decimated the Black community.

Black, Hispanic, and Asian households face neighborhood segregation.

The number of minorities, African Americans, home ownership is dropping in America.

Minorities have always faced historic patterns of discrimination when it comes to home ownership.

I feel very strongly that we should, and as part of our civil rights and as part of our expectations of equality in America, that we, as Congress, need to have an ethical standard when it comes to diversity and inclusion, because if we…

I strongly believe that we need a comprehensive understanding of the current uses and the risks. And I want to make sure that, and you have said that, that we are creating standards and that we also are recognizing the risk in AI research.

We cannot have another Flint water crisis. I am so committed to it.

These stories remind me of what we recently went through in Michigan, and I was with the leadership of Congressman Kildee.

I am one of many who have been exposed to this poison in my drinking water. I am one of many who turns on my faucet to make dinner for my children and wonder if I am hurting my child.

I hope other physicians will never know the heartbreak of facing a patient with cancer, asking if their tumor was in part caused by poisoned water coming out of their taps, and the same water their children are drinking.

Just in closing, I want to be on the record that it's been amazing and just such an honor to share this time in history with an amazing leader like my colleague, Congressman Connolly.

I want to be on the record, I agree. We in government, as we embrace technology, as we try to keep pace with this industry, we must sit down at the table and talk and work together.

It is an insult for us not to provide the care for women who are giving birth.

The United States of America is leading in maternal mortality. That is women dying in childbirth.

The ACA has increased access to care for every stage of children's lives, beginning with improved access to maternity care for better health outcomes for children.

March of Dimes Statement for the Record; submitted by Rep. Lawrence.

But at the end of the day, if you still have veterans piling into their office of--the Members of Congress telling them that they're not being respected, they're not getting timely response, and that they need services that they cannot…

Those work very well.

I feel there's a place for that. Even if we look at closing a facility, you must increase those CBOCs.