Democrats will not let the bank of justice be destroyed by MAGA Republicans. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman's time has expired.

Today, we are here to discuss the critical role of international financial institutions in the global economy and the increasingly large role that China is playing as a global lender to supplant U.S. leadership.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of the China Financial Threat Mitigation Act, or H.R. 1156. Certainly, I agree with my colleague and friends across the aisle that we need to dig…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me time, and I thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their bipartisan support. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of the Preventing the Financing of Illegal Synthetic Drugs…

I want to take a moment, Mr. Chairman, to acknowledge the hardworking Americans who were harmed by this glaring mismanagement at your banks.

Public pension funds nationwide lost millions of dollars that were invested in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

Meanwhile, teachers, like my sisters, firefighters, and other public servants lost millions that were invested through your public pension funds.

43 years ago, the trailblazing Ohioan, a friend, and founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Louis Stokes, stood on this very floor and entered into the Record an extraordinary speech. It was a speech he had heard by a…

I rise this evening to be another voice on the epidemic of gun violence in our country. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Florida and the gentleman from Illinois for leading us in this Special Order hour. Certainly, to the chair of…

Let me say thank you to my colleagues and my friends for chairing tonight's Special Order hour. To the gentlewoman from Florida and the gentleman from Illinois, I thank them for speaking truth to power. I thank them for reminding us of our…

Can you share with us or explain to us what the typical ratio is for your average bank and how this factor played into the bank run that we witnessed on March 9th?

To our Special Order Congressional Black Caucus chairman, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, it is my honor to stand here with you to thank you for your leadership and for all that you are doing--to be a Black man standing, talking about the…

President Biden's Administration issued an Executive Order on imposing sanctions on foreign persons involved in global illicit drug trade.

Today, as you know, we are here to discuss the financial infrastructure that underlies the production and proceeds of illicit fentanyl, a drug that is devastating our communities and taking far too many American lives.

the Biden Administration also hears you.

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

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

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

$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.

But does it exist now?

There are no Black females?

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…