Al Green

I just believe that what is good for the regulator is good for the regulated.

It is about invidious discrimination wherever it happens to be, not just at the CFPB.

I have not drawn a final conclusion, just because we have heard allegations.

Whatever happens anywhere else doesn't change our need to make sure that we help protect consumers.

The truth is we spent $621 million on a visitors center, a congressional visitors center. It cost $621 million.

We have reached a point in time where we have to take the axe of truth and slam it into the tree of circumstance and let the chips fall where they may.

The truth is, Mr. Cordray, that if you eliminated the work on the building, the renovation process today, it would not end the argument, the opposition to the CFPB.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is here. If we did not have it, we would be trying to create it.

The great work that has been done at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been done not because of but in spite of opposition.

I have learned that until you hear both sides of a story, you should not draw conclusions.

I am committed to getting to the bottom of the allegations of discrimination. I believe that discrimination is abhorrent and that it must be eradicated.

I am very much concerned about overreach.

Let's get it on. So Mr. Chairman, let's get it on. Let's get to the bottom of it, and let's not let this be the last time that this committee embraces the notion that we are going to deal with invidious discrimination, whether it is in the…

My district in Texas is a very urban district in Houston and has one of the highest rates of uninsured people.

The SEC, in my opinion, is not a burden to taxpayers; it is a benefit to taxpayers.

I do not see this as the end, I see it as the beginning.

H.R. 3876, the Burial with Dignity for Heroes Act, introduced by Representative Al Green...

This practical legislation would help eliminate the possibility of a hero not receiving a proper military funeral.

I am confident this legislation will help to ensure that all homeless veterans receive a burial with dignity.

I, along with my colleague Congresswoman Corrine Brown, have introduced H.R. 3876, the Burial with Dignity for Heroes Act of 2014.

Many veterans make the ultimate sacrifice for the citizens of United States of America and this should never be overlooked.

I want to use just a little bit of my time to ask for a moment of silence for those families who are still having to endure wars.

We want every person who serves our country honorably to have a dignified memorial service.

It pulls at my heart to know that a family is not in a position to receive something that has been earned.

There are no throwaways in the America that I love.