Rashida Tlaib

I really do appreciate, Mr. Bilott, that you're here at this subcommittee, and we really thank you for your important work that you've done to hold DuPont accountable for its decade of wrongdoing.

So in spite of growing scientific consensus within the company that PFOA was toxic and was contaminating local environments, DuPont purposely hid the research from affected communities and government regulators.

How about injuries, people dying?

So even though you contaminated other sites, you don't want to pay for that?

So regardless of all the money DuPont made over the decades with PFAS chemicals, is it your opinion that new--I can't stand that you guys call it----

If these chemicals are killing people, let's stop using them and let's get them out of our environment.

Let's not get sucked into the rabbit hole of more research needs to be done.

A company is tied to its past, morally responsible for its past, and must answer for its past.

Our chairman has taken a lead in--you know, he sent a letter, and I think on September 5, outlining evidence that we uncovered about Juul illegally marketing its products in schools.

There is a huge racial wealth gap in our country.

Well, you are not working with us. That is discrimination. You are not allowed to do that in the United States of America. It is prohibited.

We call that sustainability. We don't want trinkets. We want sustainability.

I know in my district, in the 13th Congressional District, we have lost more Black homeownership than anywhere in the country.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would rescind enforcement of the 2013 disparate impact rule.

I worry about throwing more money at something that is already broken.

The majority of loans are still going to white families who are moving into Detroit versus Black families.

I have been really a big critic of just not feeling like the enforcement is there.

Water bills are being used as a tool to create an encumbrance, to take property.

They are doing it a lot with churches, particularly Black churches.

There are a lot of misconceptions out there.

The one issue that came up during the tour, Ted, is specifically around this move for community groups, who are so tired of trying to deal with the banks or trying to get the Federal Government to do something, that they are now creating…

Thank you. So right now, I know about 65,000 foreclosures--this is for you, Ted--65,000 properties in foreclosure in 2019.

We cannot have this empirically proven, unconstitutional tax assessment and continue to foreclose on people as if the problem is they don't want to pay.

Provisions in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 had cracks and flaws.

Michigan suffered the steepest decline in Black home ownership.