I strongly encourage my colleagues to reject this anti-worker bill masquerading as an issue of Tribal sovereignty. I strongly support Tribal sovereignty. I can't speak for everyone in this body, but I am virtually certain that every single…

I am hopeful we can move faster in your appointment than this Senate, this Committee, and the U.S. Senate moved on your predecessor's 2014 appointment.

That is why we created the CFPB. Its job is clear: to fight for hardworking families against unfair, abusive, and deceptive practices, the tricks and traps that some financial institutions design in order to line their pockets.

The lesson from 2008 is simple: If we do not protect hardworking Americans from powerful Wall Street banks and financial scammers, it can bring down our entire economy.

to say there is no oversight is, I think, a bit of a reach

But for career people as opposed to political people.

Is the CFPB still subject to a hiring freeze?

Why, against the advice of nonpartisan CFPB staff, did you drop a lawsuit against those four payday lenders?

The reason we are here today is that there was a financial crisis 10 years ago caused by predatory lenders, and that crisis cost millions of Americans their jobs and their homes.

But, again, we do not comment on the OIRA process.

the CFPB used that power, in a good way mostly, to get $12 billion in relief for 29 million Americans.

50 years ago today, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, exactly 1 week after the assassination of Martin Luther King as he fought for economic justice for sanitation workers in Memphis. It also came just weeks after the Kerner…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act

Congress should not fall for it. We have seen that the CFPB can be a real, positive voice and force for American consumers.

You claim to want CFPB to be data-driven. You have told staff, 'There is a lot more math in our future.'

But with less necessity because they are not doing the kind of work that their predecessors were doing.

I hope that you will move aggressively.

The VA Secretary needs to serve all veterans, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

I have grave concerns regarding the position in the administration about privatizing veterans' health care.

thank you. I thank the Senator from Rhode Island, who has been a great advocate for moving this country forward on everything from campaign finance rules to labor, to justice, and to keeping our planet as clean as possible. During his…

Do you believe the VA has an obligation to provide medical care and disability compensation for veterans who have been exposed to toxic chemicals while serving our country?

Will you increase transparency with Congress on the Department's position on Agent Orange, presumptive conditions on Blue Water Navy veterans' eligibility for benefits and to establish a process to diagnose constrictive bronchiolitis, a…

this weekend, Americans around the country and at, at least, a dozen places in my State of Ohio will hold peaceful marches in their communities to demand that we in this body--the people who represent them--actually do something to protect…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. March For Our Lives

HUD's mission is too important to do otherwise, and getting things right means fighting for the funding needed to help more people in this country get a roof over their head.