Congress should enact the 'Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act,' (H.R. 2914), introduced by Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), which contains critically needed reforms to ensure that the lowest-income and most marginalized…

Congress must ensure that equity is a central and explicit goal of federal disaster housing response and recovery efforts.

Congress should permanently authorize DHAP and automatically activate it after every disaster.

I thank the Committee for your work on this bill and ask that you help move it to the floor for a vote.

Congress should enact clarifying legislation to ensure that people experiencing homelessness prior to the disaster have access to the same emergency shelter and disaster relief assistance as other survivors.

Federal disaster housing response and recovery efforts must address and prioritize the needs of the lowest-income and most marginalized survivors.

When we heard of the Muslim ban being implemented, many New Yorkers, including our chairman, Congressman Nadler, rushed to JFK Airport to help families. What I witnessed there in many cases was, in fact, Muslim members of our Armed Forces…

Let me just say that it has been very difficult for the Latin American and the Caribbean and they are in dire need of test kits, of ventilators now, of course PPEs, and we are coming right into hurricane season.

I represent the 13th Congressional District in New York. It has many wonderful neighborhoods in it, the iconic neighborhood of Harlem, which has given birth to many luminaries, including the great late Adam Powell and, of course, the Lion…

I also want to stress my displeasure, my objection to the precedence of folks that have made anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, Islamophobic statements...

We can whine and complain about China, but the fact of the matter is that they go in there and they take ownership of major projects.

I want to thank Chairman DeFazio, and I rise in strong support of the Moving Forward Act. It will make critical investment in all kinds of infrastructure. I am delighted that it includes the Transportation Alternatives Enhancements Act, a…