Alma Adams

Today, we need programs in place to support and promote the growing market for locally produced food grown in chemical-free soil.

Soil health is imperative to American health.

Our bill would allow cities and States to use their already-appropriated Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) dollars to serve as gap financing for housing that utilizes LIHTC.

I am delighted to have an HBCU at the helm of FHFA, and I can't wait to see the great work that I know you will do.

And I'd like each of you to follow up in writing specifically what collaboration you have with non-HBCU Universities.

However, if Cargill were a publicly traded company, it would rank at near the top of Fortune 500 corporations.

My question, Mr. Chairman, has to do with our HBCUs and specifically our 1890 Land-Grant Universities who specialize in agriculture and farming.

I think there is some kind of problem, Madam Chairwoman, with the--

I want to take a moment to note the diverse and specialized expertise you have to offer the 1890 Institutions.

In my whole career people say I have done great work, but I have done great bipartisan work.

We are going to get you and this nation that $450 million that is needed in this farm bill.

This is one thing, one issue that has bipartisan support, feeding our nation.

We have to increase. We have been hit with COVID-19. We have been hit with challenges all the way through.

If we want to raise people out of poverty, if we want to ensure that Americans have the opportunity to enter the middle class, and if we believe that workers deserve a decent wage for an honest day's work, then we must enact a meaningful…

Raising the Federal minimum wage is an issue of great importance to me and many of the Members of this Subcommittee.

Therefore, it certainly looks like it is cheaper to willingly violate the F-L-S-A than it is to pay employees what they are entitled to receive.

Ultimately, wage theft prevents workers from taking meaningful steps to enter the middle class.

This is a multi-billion-dollar problem. Each year, dishonest employers steal at least $15 billion from workers' paychecks in minimum wage violations alone.

Too often, dishonest employers cheat their employees out of the wages that they are legally entitled to receive.

Therefore, I'm committed to working with my colleagues to pass the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act of 2022 to ensure workers receive the wages that they earn.

I believe that service is the rent we pay for our time on Earth.

I believe we need to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for Federal student loan borrowers.

I personally believe that is outrageous.

If you defraud a bank, you are going to jail, but we find that consumers, especially minority consumers, are being defrauded.

I think there ought to be a criminal penalty when it can be proven.