Joyce Beatty

I hope that this committee rejects efforts by extreme Republicans in Congress bent on slashing the budgets of the Treasury Department agencies.

I hope that the same attention being paid to communities harmed by fentanyl will be paid to the communities hit by other drug epidemics, including crack cocaine.

I concur with Ranking Member Waters' points on the importance of avoiding a debt default that would deliver a decisive victory to the People's Republic of China.

I want America to know that we are all the better because of Congresswoman Maxine Waters fighting and standing up for the people.

I cannot begin to tell you how honored I am to have someone who understands protecting our consumers and putting them first.

$3.8 billion in CDBG, and also specifically said that their area of interest in housing included working in those underserved areas in cities, small towns, and rural areas.

No one has been a bigger advocate for housing than Chairwoman Maxine Waters

There are no Black females?

But does it exist now?

Let me also end by saying that this bill will set a path that the United States will be a leader in the economy for the future. I have listened repeatedly to Members on the other side of the aisle talk about inflation, talk about…

This subcommittee has been focused on examining diversity in all its forms in the intersection with financial and economic opportunity.

Let us take a look at the $10,000, keep the same rules, but let us lift the bar.

I appreciate your leadership as Treasury implements the sanctions against Putin's regime, particularly as more details of war crimes and atrocities committed in Ukraine come to light.

Thank you for that question. And as an HBCU graduate, as well as all five of my siblings, I can speak to that directly.

Thank you yesterday. It was emotional. It was heartfelt.

I think it would be a sad day in America.

I think you also have to look at judicial temperament, and what you saw yesterday, beyond her talking about her early childhood, was her response to the tough questions, maybe, I think, some unfair questions.

What we will see when she is confirmed is what America looks like.

I urge this body to remember that Judge Jackson's confirmation vote must not be isolated to her gender or to her race.

Judge Jackson would be only the sixth woman and the first Black woman to serve on our Nation's highest court.

I think it is an extremely powerful and needed message that we send out to little girls, all little girls, but specifically those who are of color.

I express my strong and unwavering support for the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Keep in mind, he didn`t think there was anything wrong with January the 6th.

They`re censuring Liz Cheney because she did what was right. Joining that select committee and standing up for our democracy and they want to censure her? Unthinkable.

I think many of my Republican colleagues, especially at the leadership, the RNC, they`re wanting to keep the voter suppression out there so we don`t vote because we win when we vote.