Gregory Meeks

This subcommittee, in particular, has jurisdiction over important issues that directly impact every one of our constituents--issues that keep many parents up at night as they consider their family's finances.

Our committee is powerful not only because it touches our country's largest companies and Wall Street financial institutions but because its focus is to promote the economic well-being of Main Street, consumers, and investors.

Chairwoman Waters has set an ambitious agenda for the Financial Services Committee, which I look forward to working on and advancing.

I believe that leveraging the resources of the U.S. Government to support greater private sector investments which I think is key is a win-win.

Unfortunately, oftentimes or as just happened at this time while I was in Africa I asked about U.S. involvement, U.S. investment, U.S. trade, and they are saying that they don't see enough of us.

I want to join the chorus in thanking you for your leadership as chairman of this committee.

But I want it to be reasonable. Whereas the payday lenders are not reasonable.

I don't want them to go out, not having access to capital, into loans or feeling that they have to go to payday lenders or anything else where they have to pay some more money.

I urge the Fed move more quickly on this initiative, but I am also sympathetic though to some concerns...

As Representative Meeks recently noted, fintech products can build a truly affordable and healthy financial system for everyone.

I've got to tell you, when I travel on this committee and I go almost any place in the world, ... I am so proud of them and what they do and what they stand for.

The Trump administration's fiscal year 2019 budget leads us to question the ability of USAID and the State Department to execute their missions.

The U.S.-Europe-Eurasia relationship remains an important part of global stability in light of efforts by Russia to interfere in our democracies.

We need to be spending an adequate amount and more than is put forward in the President's budget on foreign aid.

The proposed budget calls into question whether or not the State Department will be adequately resourced in Europe and Central Asia.

The allegations that are against you are of course deeply concerning and should be treated as such

It limits their success. It limits their well-being and we must make sure that does not happen.

I do believe that Congress has an oversight role to play when it comes to diversity and inclusion in our workforce.

I want to echo Dr. Foster's comments that in my 3-1/2 years or so of serving in Congress, it is been refreshing to see the strong bipartisan support, particularly in this committee and the full committee on how to use sanctions as a…

We could simply use the power of sanctions to target two specific companies, for example.

The logic would be that for similar purposes that we are currently engaging in unilateral action on tariffs, frankly, maximum collateral damage in the case of uniform tariffs, for example.

There has been progress in the region on democracy-related issues.

Central Asia nations are global leaders with extensive international reach.

Central Asia did not get the attention that it should get.

I think there is a kinship between our peoples.