Al Green

We have to do more to help people in our hemisphere.

The reason I am sharing this with you is because you didn't complain when INS was abolished, did you?

Regulations have to be dealt with, but our original sin was discrimination.

Our original sin was discrimination.

I think that it is time for us to move now a quantum leap forward.

I am concerned that if we don't impeach this President, he will get reelected.

With this ID I can vote on the budget for this country. I can vote on issues of war and peace.

Texas has been a bad actor for a very long time. And we have to do what we are doing today.

If we don't impeach this President, he will be reelected.

Like them, I am opposed to any potential overreach by Congress that diminishes a State's right to regulate insurance.

I think that we owe it to ourselves as a country to make sure every person is treated fairly when making an automobile purchase.

Poor people across the length and breadth of this country suffer in poverty without committing crimes.

I am of the opinion, Madam Chairwoman, that the infrastructure starts with housing, because all roads lead to some home, some community where people dwell.

A great country is not going to be measured--its greatness is not going to be measured by how we treat the people who live in the suites of life. It will be measured by how we treat people in the streets of life, people who are coming…

We are here today to protect the American economy. We are here today to do the hard work that my friends on the other side declined to do in 2008.

In 2005, is it true that JPMorgan released information indicating that it directly benefited from slavery?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. I especially thank you for your courage in standing up for consumers.

I think everyone here recognizes that our planet is an amazing place, and while we should look at all the climate theories with a critical eye, we can all admit that we can harm our planet.

I think that this is a great opportunity for us to go from talking points about invidious discrimination to action items.

I especially thank you for the opportunity for us to move from talking points with reference to invidious discrimination to action items.

Latinos and African Americans are more than twice as likely as whites to be denied mortgage credit.

We urge the committee to investigate HUD's plans for the disparate impact rule and to use its authorities to protect and preserve it.

I urge you to look into both of these problems and I would be happy to answer your questions about them.

I want to thank you, Chairwoman Waters and Congressmen Green and Clay and Congresswoman Beatty and many other members of the committee for the leadership and support for fair housing that you have shown over many years.

We want to do all that we can to be of assistance to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico simply because of the need that exist and the fact that these are American citizens.