Gregory Meeks

The CFPB is failing to accomplish what it was created to do. It has forgotten that it is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and not the businesses' or anyone else's protection bureau.

There has been a rapid and dramatic shift in the legal treatment of cannabis, led by voters at the local and State levels. Nearly every American now lives in a State where cannabis has been decriminalized to some extent and legal business…

I have introduced a piece of legislation, H.R. 3948, the Debt Collection Practices Harmonization Act.

I urge the regulators, FSOC, and, in particular, the Office of Financial Research, to invest in required resources to monitor, map, and quantify existing and emerging systemic risk.

I fear that some actors in the economy, and even in government, suffer from a worrisome form of amnesia or selective memory.

There is frankly no way to describe or fully capture the deep, sinking feeling of being told that the greatest economy in the world is days away from a collapse, dragging the rest of the world with us.

I was here and recall vividly, in 2008, when Secretary Paulson came to the House Floor and told us that we literally had just a few days to save the entire American economy and financial system from total collapse.

Climate change is undoubtedly an economic threat--that is true; a national security threat--that is true; and, ultimately, and most importantly, an existential threat.

If left unabated, climate change will displace world populations.

Well, maybe there's--we don't know whether an impeachment investigation has begun.

The rapidly increasing growth of student debt is indeed a national crisis, and it is not something that we should be playing politics with at all.

There is something fundamentally wrong with MDIs not being able to get outstanding ratings when that is who they are intended to serve.

We see our role on the Financial Services Committee to restore the focus on the roles of our regulators to make sure that discrimination is stopped.

Your pursuit of justice and equality in creating wealth in communities of color is unparalleled.

There should be an opportunity, if given the support, to really grow businesses in these communities.

I am sitting here somewhat frustrated, to be quite honest with you, because it seems as though we are not moving in the directions that we should move to get things done.

I am concerned about the future of banking.

The members of the board would get something called a Libra Investment Token, and that is unambiguously a security

A lot of companies have just sat down and talked to me and said, 'Look, no offense, but we don't trust you guys.'

We have provided that in a group of bipartisan folks, in the Token Taxonomy Act, and it lays out a four-part test

Four cents to treat it. I mean, talk about being able to eliminate misery for pennies on the dollar.

These diseases keep children from attending school and their parents from working.

I want to thank her for her tremendous resolution. I am very proud to be one of the 41 cosponsors.

It is amazing that there could be such a divide. And yet, the loss of life has been horrific.

I would just hope, in closing, that, as we look at the sanctions with respect to provisions of certain vessels for the construction of the Russian energy and export pipeline, that we make sure that we include our allies in that dialog and…