Our nation is certainly not stronger because of their continued criticism of the United Nations.

when we are participating in any of these international agreements, specifically around capital requirements, we must be conscious of the unintended impacts to segments of our population who have been traditionally excluded from the…

Yesterday I was with the President in my district talking about housing and the importance of addressing housing affordability and lowering the cost, both for rent as well as the ability towards pursuing homeownership.

It is information that we do not know about these institutional investors. It is why I think it is important that HUD be able to collect the necessary data on the housing market to get a more accurate picture.

And that would help close the racial wealth gap.

That is why I introduced, last year, the bipartisan and bicameral Housing Oversight and Mitigating Exploitation (HOME) Act, to actually empower HUD to gather this data needed to understand the severity of our housing shortage and to…

Because we would build equity, which helps build wealth, for those individuals.

So, we need to make sure we are really supporting our Housing Choice Voucher Program so that we can make sure borrowers with the lowest incomes get the ability to safely live in decent.

I thank Congressman Jackson and Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick for co-anchoring tonight's Special Order hour. I thank all the Members who have come to honor the start of Women's History Month, and I rise today with my colleagues of the…

We will be equally as resolute in our defense, and we will not be silent.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are a business imperative.

This is an attack that must be addressed, and this committee should be at the center of it.

I hope you will agree with me that there is still more work that needs to be done.

We do have a crisis at the border. For decades, we have been waiting for a solution for comprehensive immigration reform. In fact, in my first term here in the House, I was proud to be one of the leads on a comprehensive immigration reform…

But, here we go again. Republicans are so focused on their outrageous culture wars that they are not going to spend our time today talking about the issues that are imperative to the financial sector.

Finally, let me just close by stating that in Nevada, the very real threat of climate change is causing us to quickly confront the increase in these events, namely, for Nevada, a water crisis.

That is why we need mandatory disclosure, a baseline, a total mix of information that actually informs investor decision-making, and there is an advantage there both for companies, as you suggest, as well as for investors and for the…

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor our late former colleague, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. I am honored to have served with and to have been able to learn from such a legend in our…

I thank the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Larson) for bringing us together for this important Special Order and to thank him for his tremendous leadership on Social Security as the ranking member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on…

Merit, merit is the sole qualification for admission to the U.S. Air Force Academy.

What I want to see happen is that they feel proud of their service, that they spread the word, and that they continue to add to your recruitment and retention efforts.

I think we should spend more time trying to break down those barriers rather than creating more cultural wars that divide us.

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Jackson) for anchoring tonight's Special Order hour and for his tenacity, perseverance, and dedication along with Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick as the coanchor for the Congressional Black…

I am mad, I am pissed, the American people are pissed, and my constituents are pissed that we don't make housing more of a priority in this Congress.

Far too many households are forced to continue to rent, and they face unique challenges.