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Al Green

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Al N. Green is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 9th congressional district since 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, Green has focused on issues such as civil rights, healthcare, and economic justice throughout his tenure. He has been an outspoken advocate for various social issues, including gun control and voting rights.

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Mar 19, 2014

We should ask what happened to them and try to rescue them.

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Mar 19, 2014

We have to change that so they call the police and then law enforcement works with the Feds and we make sure that they are not going to get deported for reporting a crime of human slavery.

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Mar 19, 2014

We want every person who is being trafficked, every person who is being ensnarled, every person who is in involuntary servitude to get out and into the sunlight.

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Mar 19, 2014

It is exceedingly important that the empirical evidence that has been shared by expert witnesses be made available to the public.

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Mar 19, 2014

What are some of these masters making in Houston, Texas?

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Mar 19, 2014

It is time to expose them, and they need to go to prison and they need to be exposed.

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Mar 19, 2014

But they are all victims of crime, and we have to recognize them.

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Feb 4, 2014

We should be clear, Mr. Chairman, as to what this report is and what it is not. It is not a green light to designate actors in the industry as systemically important institutions.

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Feb 4, 2014

can you give some indication as to how Dodd-Frank has had a positive impact on the financial system with reference to its stability?

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Feb 4, 2014

If we choose to, we can eliminate your existence, your very existence. You are a creature of Congress, you exist because Congress decided that you should be there?

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Feb 4, 2014

the financial system is stronger today, yet there are still some concerns that have to be addressed

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Feb 4, 2014

Today's hearing is an opportunity to learn more about the Office of Financial Research's work last year as well as what we can expect from their 2014 agenda.

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Dec 11, 2013

Are there policies that we should review such that this type of inequality does not continue to expand?

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Dec 2, 2013

I think it is right there with some of the great disasters of my time.

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Dec 2, 2013

Life is an inescapable network of mutuality tied to a single garment of destiny.

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Dec 2, 2013

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You mentioned earlier, I believe it was Mr. Callahan, that we have 3 million children who are in child labor.

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Dec 2, 2013

I was inspired by the unity of the effort when I was there.

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Dec 2, 2013

I would like to extend my condolences to the people in the Philippines. They have suffered greatly.

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Dec 2, 2013

This was a truly bipartisan effort to making a nonpartisan goal to try to reach out to the Filipino people.

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Dec 2, 2013

They know where the vulnerable are. They know where the help is needed.

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Dec 2, 2013

They not only help after a disaster, but also before.

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Dec 2, 2013

Mr. Royce, I want to thank you because you immediately started this process with a resolution

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Nov 18, 2013

It is great to be able to prove intentionality, that there was intent to do harm.

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Nov 18, 2013

I am also appreciative that you have embraced this hearing with an open mind so that we can come to conclusions about a long settled standard of disparate impact.

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Nov 18, 2013

It is my belief that this hearing will be about whether discrimination has to have intention to be harmful.

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