Rashida Tlaib

Does the FDA have authorization to oversee food packaging, right?

So, we do not really have anything right now that gives you any authority over the use of water on produce?

I want to help you. This is more me trying to show my colleagues that if we really cared about food safety...

They are talking about just disclosing first, right?

We bail them out instead of telling them to do what is right, which is providing information so that we can make much more informed decisions.

Climate risk is a financial risk.

I think so many people always forget how many times the American taxpayer has bailed out folks for just really hiding the truth from the public, especially in areas that we know are risks.

I would like to turn now to concerns about compliance costs.

We deserve to do better. I remember Chairman Cummings constantly reminding us that we can be better.

We could do so many things bipartisan in this Committee. I know it, and I think we are right now really missing out an opportunity to do that.

And, you know, I know my colleagues on the other side, we all have a clean water crisis.

It is so exhausting. This is really incredibly exhausting, and I cannot imagine our residents sitting at home.

I know roughly 50 million consumers out there, Ms. Bailey, were disproportionately people of color, who lacked the credit history necessary to produce a reliable credit score.

We need to enforce our nation's fair lending and housing laws, but we also need to make sure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can enforce our nation's consumer protection laws.

Discrimination is not a relic of the past. It remains a problem in our housing sector.

The difference in homeownership rates between Black and White households is larger today than it was before the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968

We need to truly enforce them in a way that, again, pushes back against what we know is very much systemic racism within the banking industry.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Michigan will be postponed. Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Lynch The Acting CHAIR. It is…

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If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted.

I commend this move, which will bring much-needed transparency to our housing market.

Rulemaking is not enough. Implementation matters, and it is going to take resources.

It has to fulfill its total responsibilities when it talks about protecting our residents, especially our low-income and underserved communities, from the systemic risk, as you know, and financial instability that results from the failure…

What I hear is the different regulatory environments that we are creating. What does it mean? What is regulatory, what is it, arbitrage? What does that mean?