Joyce Beatty

You would see great difficulties for the State of Ohio to do that.

As Members of Congress, let's create a budget resolution that creates jobs, economic growth, fosters innovation, creativity, and increases the quality of life for working families while solving the Nation's most pressing challenges.

Safe, affordable housing, Section 8 voucher programs, opportunities for home ownership, support for community development are priorities that I believe our Nation would be proud to see in the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution.

We must robustly invest in education in order to create an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.

Providing children with access to high-quality early childhood development is a cornerstone of human development and puts them on an early path to success.

Our budget should reflect a serious sustained investment in our Nation's ability to compete in the 21st century.

Unfortunately, President Trump's proposal to increase defense spending by $54 billion while decreasing nondefense programs by the same level I believe will hamper our Nation's ability to meet the needs of the American people.

One that you might know quite easily is Congresslady Joyce Beatty, who is a soft-spoken, demure Congresslady who has done a tremendous amount of work here in support of land-grant institutions.

Well, thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and let me thank this distinguished panel for yet an opportunity to talk about our economy, our monetary policy, and to really sort of dig down deep into the theoretical and the what will really work…

I thank Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed my honor to yield to my coanchor, my classmate, my friend, the Congressman from the Eighth Congressional District of New York. I wanted to pause for a moment and think…

I thank so much Congresswoman Robin Kelly. Mr. Speaker, I now yield to Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey's 12th District. I am so honored to serve with her. She stands in this same space as the Special Order hour chair…

I thank so much the gentleman--my classmate and colleague--from New Jersey's 10th Congressional District. Mr. Speaker, it is, indeed, my honor to yield to Congresswoman Robin Kelly from the Second District of Illinois. We have heard that…

I thank Congressman Greg Meeks for lending his voice to tonight's Special Order hour. {time} 2000 It is now my honor to ask Congressman Donald Payne from New Jersey to come and lend his voice tonight. He is someone who brings a message to…

I thank Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Mr. Speaker, it is now my honor to yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), from New York's Fifth Congressional District. There are so many things that I could say about him. I am honored…

I thank Congressman Butterfield not only for his words but for his leadership as our chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), another member of the Congressional Black Caucus, who…

I am glad that people in high places want to come and learn about what we do.

I want to make sure that we stay focused on that. I think we can do better than that.

I too join that letter that hundreds of Members of Congress sent to you and let me just say thank you for that quick response.

These bills are bipartisan.

We want scholarships to get these young kids in there.

We want to set that up. It will come under the Secretary of Labor, who will coordinate these programs.

I and my cosponsors have introduced two pieces of legislation that I certainly hope you will say a kind word for.

The overwhelming unemployment rate facing young African American men.

I have called for the revamp of the Community Reinvestment Act in a letter that was just mailed to a number of banking regulators and cosigned by 40 of my colleagues.

I am going to have something that is called the Beatty rule where we would like to start with Federal organizations like yours and simply say that, as you look at these positions, you actually identify and at least interview one person who…