If Congress had funded an infrastructure bank for example and rebuilt schools, bridges, roads, and transit, we would have lower unemployment and a stronger economy.

The Inclusive Prosperity Act enacts a wafer-thin tax on the sale of stocks, bonds, and derivatives.

Congressman Ellison, you can't get clean on the street. You can't hold a job on the street. We need housing.

The status quo means giving significant tax breaks to families that earn more than $100,000 a year.

I cannot ignore the pressing housing needs of Americans and the current problems that the current mortgage interest deduction causes.

The 15 percent credit my bill proposes would help more than 16 million current homeowners.

They take these complaints seriously.

I have long been critical of refund anticipation loans, RAL loans. These short-term high-cost bank loans secured by the taxpayers' expected tax refund are often predatory and expensive.

Mr. Ellison. Director Cordray, your agency has been under attack since its first day.

Mr. Ellison. Not everyone is an opponent of the work of the CFPB.

Race matters when it comes to how people experience our economy.