Gregory Meeks

We need to make sure that Americans continue to have access to financial education on their retirement products and options.

We need to protect them from people who are just trying to sell them products so that they can make themselves more money.

Most Americans are not financial experts. And millions are often not even financially literate.

I think we should learn a lesson because we are still paying for that when we didn't do everything that we could first.

I can't leave it in a vacuum because I had another important vote and that was back when we decided, you know, was talking about Iraq.

I think it is important for Members of Congress before we make a decision is to try to talk to our colleagues in the P5+1.

The risk to the United States, as far as us, it is minimal, if anything. It is not substantial.

It is for us to deal with Europe as a whole.

So I think that just by the very logic of the hearing itself that any logical person would have to say 5 years later, we are more stable with Dodd-Frank than we were without Dodd-Frank because Dodd-Frank didn't exist 5 years ago and we…

And in fact, from what I hear, especially with private sector jobs, I understand that the private sector has created over 12.8 million new jobs over 64 consecutive months of job growth.

Colombia's nearly 50-year internal armed conflict has had devastating consequences in Colombia.

The ultimate answer would have to come through political dialogue.

I was one of those Members who supported it because I had the hope that it would help the nation come back from the brink of war.

Today's vote to grant the President trade promotion authority is about America's future in a globalized world. Let's be clear what is at stake. America's standing as a global leader has not come without strong leadership from this body…

I want to thank Mr. Rangel. I stand in support of this bipartisan legislation, which passed the Senate by a vote of 99-1. It includes preferences that are critical to so many economies in the developing world: the African Growth and…

I personally know the critical need and the significant importance of public housing, giving individuals an opportunity.

It just seems, that is why I am just baffled that some of my colleagues don't believe we need Ex-Im Bank.

It seems to me that what we are talking about is making the American workers the winners here.

And there are already resources, because sometimes you get these things set aside because it could be over 142,000 letters, from my understanding, in potential cases.

We do share your concern about the apparent rise of the extreme right, not only in Hungary, in other countries in Europe.

I am concerned about extremes. Extreme left, extreme right, either way...

We still have a consensus that it is essential to make sure that Russia continues to pay a cost for what it is doing in Ukraine.

We have a great relationship of which can only get better if we are honest with one another and we talk back and forth.

I think that is where we need to talk so that we can work collectively together so that we can try to figure out how this system works better.

I think, as I said in my opening, and you missed that, Mr. Yee, unfortunately. I think that when you have friends, you can be honest with friends, and you can talk back and forth.