"The reality is, collectively, the United States spends about $900 billion a year on a social safety net."
"I do not believe in simple narratives around the issue of housing. There is no one-size-fits-all solution."
"At its core, the CRA is a civil rights bill."
"Public housing facilities--I am a child and a product of public housing--are crumbling in cities across the country."
"As a nation, we are facing an array of serious housing issues. Homelessness is on the rise because of skyrocketing housing costs and underinvestment in anti-homelessness programs."
"It was not to stop an imminent Iranian attack against the United States."
"We know that people are dying on a daily basis, some because of no food, others because of the violence that has taken place."
"I never, ever want to be put in a position again where the Treasury Secretary comes to the Floor of the House and tells us that we literally have days to save the U.S. economy from total collapse."
"I have some real concerns because, as I look at the Chinese growth stalling, as I look at how the European economies are slowing, with some entering recession, I look at Brexit looming and what effect..."
"History may not repeat itself, but sometimes it certainly rhymes, and I fear that over the next few years, for the economy it may rhyme a little too much for me with the past decade."
"For example, if you look at my district, and Black and minority communities, they overwhelmingly lost wealth, lost jobs, and were foreclosed upon at disproportionately high rates, and many of them hav..."