Gregory Meeks

Our families and our businesses are asking Congress for additional relief to combat this health crisis.

I thank Mr. Espaillat, and I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith). I also thank Representative Kinzinger for his support and his collaboration in working collectively to bring this bill to the floor for a vote. The reason for…

MDIs and CDFIs are essential pillars to tackling the systemic problems that we seek to solve.

I believe with conviction that these bills matter, and that the collaborative approach is critical as we seek to redress structural discrimination and systemic inequalities that hold back too many families across our country.

We cannot stand idly by, and Mr. Connolly has come up with a well-thought-out bill to prevent that from happening in the future.

We must demonstrate commitment to the dissidents around the world who want to look to America as they bravely seek democratic progress at home.

It is important for Congress, a separate branch of government, to act where the administration has refused to.

I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia, Representative Connolly, for his tireless work on this issue.

It is time--the studies really have been done already.

H.R. 8259 prohibits the use of Federal funds to bring Russia back into the G7 before they end their occupations.

The CDFI Fund leverages limited government funding to crowd-in significant private sector capital and foster innovation, investments, and market-oriented solutions to tackle some of our Nation's most persistent challenges in poverty…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me just say how proud I am that the House is taking up my bill today, the Ensuring Diversity in Community Banking Act. I am especially grateful for the support from Financial Services Chairwoman…

The broader social and economic toll of COVID-19 will be felt for generations.

President Trump and his Administration were not only incompetent in their mismanagement of the crisis but deliberately misleading the public.

The total absence of leadership from the Trump White House.

I just urge you to weigh in where you can on the importance of protecting the U.S. dollar.

I hope that I can collaborate broadly for a good bipartisan solution on privacy.

There is really no excuse for Congress' failure to provide the safeguard for all of America's consumers.

I first thank Congresswoman Wilson, and, of course, Congresswoman McBath. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to speak on the creation of a Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Racial…

John Robert Lewis was short in height, yet he was a giant. John Robert Lewis was a humble man but fierce for justice. John Robert Lewis talked softly, but roared like a lion when it was time to fight for freedom, justice, and equality for…

There is no greater way to honor and continue Representative Lewis's legacy than by bolstering diversity and inclusion initiatives here in the United States and abroad.

I believe that the Administration's requested budget cuts to humanitarian accounts are the wrong thing to do morally and it also absolutely sends the wrong message to the world.

I strongly support your comments earlier.

For years, inequality in the United States has been increasing, but never in the post-civil rights era have the differences been so stark.

Silence, in my viewpoint, is complicit to a large degree.