Joyce Beatty

And yet, despite this progress, my colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle are intent on dismantling the FSOC.

What this means is that Wall Street reform is working as it should.

This is a massive fraud of historic proportions that begs the question of what further reforms may be needed.

But make no mistake, we need to be doing more, especially to address the wealth gap, and particularly for African American and Hispanic households, whose economic security was devastated by the financial crisis.

With Wall Street reform, we created the FSOC to look across the entire financial system, identifying gaps that may exist between regulators and action to prevent another meltdown.

I am appalled sitting here hearing from my colleagues and learning that earlier some 27 people were evicted...

I see it as our role, your role, and especially those who are hands-on running public authorities, that you have a special obligation.

We know, as Congressman Ellison just said, in most of our communities we have long, long wait lists for them to get a Section 8 voucher.

So if they really thought that this was a problem, seems like you would want to be more armed by being in a classified setting where you could get real information.

If we want it to move forward then our leadership and others, including myself, had I known about it, would be doing this in a classified briefing.

This won't be the last time today. Here is where we are: We have people on this committee who were at that hearing.

You would think that we would have a parade; the President would be saluted; the people who negotiated would be applauded.

I think that a better style for the hearing would be, 'Don't Bother Me with Facts; My Mind is Made Up.'

This is disgraceful, if you want to know the truth.

They have refused to discuss the budget.

Someone also introduced the war on poverty by President Johnson.

This was really not about you or housing; this was politically motivated.

The Dow Jones average is up over 80 percent

The longest streak of private sector jobs growth we have had in 76 months, over 14 million jobs created

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $11 billion to over 25 million consumers

How is America less free now than it was prior to the passage of Dodd-Frank?

How is America less stable now than it was before the passage of the Dodd-Frank?

I started asking myself this question, how is America less prosperous now than it was prior to the passage of Dodd-Frank?

I thank Congressman Jeffries. Madam Speaker, as we close out tonight, I can't think of a better way to take my last 30 seconds than to speak to you and to speak to America and to ask that we take these last seconds in silence as a call to…

I take great offense to the claims that the Department of Justice is somehow diverting funds to radical, liberal, non-profit and affordable housing groups.