Joyce Beatty

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And I think you had a great analogy when you compare it to what happened with apartheid in South Africa. They feel that we are less than them, and that's why racism is a national crisis.

I think you are absolutely right in your initial words that this is absurd as that. But he -- Trump is playing to his base. And he has intimidated so many of the members of Congress, on the House and the Senate side, that I think they…

I have voted against it dozens of times.

I was very disturbed when, on September 22nd, the President issued Executive Order 18950, which seeks to halt certain forms of diversity and inclusion training in contracting with programs in the Federal Government.

I would like to request that the committee use its powers and resources if necessary to subpoena documents from the OCC related to previous lending discrimination investigations.

I stand here today on the United States House floor to say thank you to my colleagues who voted for House bill 7120, Justice in Policing Act 2020. Tomorrow, I go back home to the Third Congressional District, and I say to them, ``This is…

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I have a piece of legislation, thanks to our chairwoman, called the Beatty Rule that was put into legislation and actually passed.

This is my life mission, to make sure that women and minorities, and, specifically for me, African Americans, stand a fair chance in the world that you operate in and in the world that you run.

I am very sad because you can't answer half of the rest of my questions since you didn't even take the time to look at the report.

I want to make sure I am on the right path when I go back home and I say, 'I have a bill that is asking the Federal Reserve to collect data that can help us in the end.'

Could we be a little more creative in looking at the data based on some of the things that I am hearing from the group who came in?

The wealth gap that is getting wider. It is not coming in. And while we are talking about unemployment rates being better, many people have to work 2 and 3 jobs just to try to survive.

I just recently introduced a bill closing the racial wealth gap, which requires the Federal Reserve to further break down the data.

We were able to get $20 million in the Family Unification Program; money had not been in there since 2010.

I am a very family-oriented person, so I said to my team, let's talk about family unification.

I want to say thank you for sharing your story and, certainly, it confirms for most of us, or should, why we are here.

Then you should have known better, and maybe if you had real diversity or inclusion on your team, somebody in that room would have said what you were doing when you looked at what you were doing in housing.

I think we should probably phrase it a little differently, that your work with civil rights is a result of the number of lawsuits that you have had.

It is my time. Did you review the packet that went out in a notification to you and your team about what was included today?

I am Vice Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Congressional Black Caucus, for the record, has had multiple meetings with your company, and here we are again.

So you will have to forgive me for taking the side of affordable housing advocates and experts over the words of this Administration.

I can't accept this belief. Because as I have said before, I have dozens of organizations who have called my office saying this will do the exact opposite of what you believe.

We want to be able to say we made a difference.