Al Green

I want to add my voice to those who are calling for Houston to receive direct funding.

I condemn the snap elections by Maduro. These elections will not be free, fair, and transparent, and all they will do is cause more of a migration and force more and more people.

I think Mr. Trump ought to be scrutinized a bit closer and I hope that this legislation will help us do that.

Do you agree that when we have had an opportunity to test banks we have found that invidious discrimination exists in lending?

Do you agree that invidious discrimination still exists in the United States of America?

Quite frankly speaking, it hasn't been since slavery. That is the last time there was full employment for black people.

Record reservoir flooding was predicted even before Harvey hit Houston.

These are very different markets. Credit default swaps look to bonds, foreign exchange look to currencies, commodities, very different from interest rates, et cetera.

I am amazed at the number of members of the Grand Old Party who are defending Russian intrusion into a legitimate election.

I fear that the Grand Old Party has lost its way.

This sex trafficking is metamorphosing in the sense that the means, the methodology by which compensation is being received is changing.

We also know that this is a cash-intensive business which means that there are some persons masquerading with a facade of legitimacy that are walking into banks, leaving cash-intensive businesses and they are making deposits.

I thank the witnesses for appearing and I am grateful to this effort that we are endeavoring to take up. It is bipartisan and it is an opportunity for us to demonstrate that, when it comes to the sins associated with sex trafficking, there…

A strong and well-funded Superfund program is necessary to ensure the toxic sites in Texas and throughout the United States are cleaned up.

People are suffering. They can't get loans that other people get, and sometimes they are more qualified than the people who are getting loans.

It is not their fault that we have this history of invidious discrimination, something that I know we don't want to confront and don't want to talk about, but it exists, and somebody has to say it.

OFR is a necessary part of the Dodd-Frank defense against systemic failure.

I think it should be if not a goal of the national government to give that information to folks but also use that energy efficiency so we may not have to build another electricity-generating plant.

I think the Energy Star program is probably one of the best programs that we have.

Let me tell you why it causes me some consternation, and then you give me your indications.

The 21st Century Cures Act contained a billion dollars to fight the opioid epidemic. This is substantial but certainly not enough to win the fight.

Federal housing officials announced Friday what they called 'another down payment'--an additional $57.8 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank our committee, because we have held a number of these hearings over the last few weeks and months looking at the reliability issue.

EPA has not been forthcoming in response to the benzene leak at the Valero refinery in our district...

The pain is not eased simply because it was done without intentionality.