Al Green

As long as I can cast a vote, I will be casting a vote to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

I associate myself with the remarks of Ms. Velazquez. I think that she made some salient points.

As we look for new ways to extort capitulation, to avoid negotiation, and to protect the wealthy from paying their fair share of taxes

And still I rise, Mr. Speaker, proud to support H. Res. 382, with its clarion call to condemn and combat all acts of anti-Semitism. I do so, Mr. Speaker, because those who tolerate anti- Semitism perpetuate anti-Semitism and racism, just…

I just want to say that people don't know the relationships that people have. They don't know. We can respect people that we don't agree with. That is the greatness of America, respecting people that we have antithetical views with, but we…

And still I rise; and I rise today with a very simple message. The debt ceiling has outlived its usefulness. It is time to eliminate the debt ceiling. We have to do so because these issues that we are dealing with currently are only the…

I want to compliment you today that we have two women on a panel.

The time for atonement and recompense is at hand.

Friends, blaming President Biden and regulators will not reinstate stronger regulations on mid-sized banks or promulgate needed legislation to enable lawful clawback of ill-gotten mismanagement executive compensation.

Is it a coincidence, I ask, that these banks grew rapidly beginning in 2018, and failed to adequately manage their risk around the same time that former President Trump signed S. 2155, his Bank Deregulation Bill, into law?

The focus of today's hearing should be the mismanagement of these banks by their executives in the years leading up to the collapse, in tandem with the Trump-era deregulation that enabled this mismanagement to fester.

I commend the prompt response of President Biden, Full Committee Ranking Member Waters, and Federal regulators to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

I tend to deal with the sensitive issues.

I compliment the gentleman for recognizing a staffer. This is what I would expect from him, to be quite honest. He has demonstrated in his years in Congress a desire to see that all people are treated fairly. He has not only demonstrated a…

And I still I rise with but 30 seconds to take a position. It is impossible in the time allotted to give a proper recitation. I can but say this: I don't believe that this is the place for this decision to be made, regardless as to what…

And still I rise and I rise today, again, in the name of liberty and justice for all. More specifically, liberty and justice for Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis as promised in our Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Speaker, earlier today in making a…

The hearing should really be about, in my opinion, the adverse consequences of the richest and most powerful country in the world failing to pay its debts because of politics.

Many of the members are so bold now as to say that they are sick and tired of hearing about this.

We perpetuate systemic racism in your mandate of maximum employment.

This powerful committee will focus only on the watch of the Democratic President, Joe Biden.

Today, friends, the subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled, 'Holding the Biden Administration Accountable for Wasteful Spending and Regulatory Overreach.'

I am exceedingly proud of the way my Democratic colleagues and I were the adults in the room.

People expect the government to step in and be of assistance when they can't work because we told them not to go to work.

I am not going to allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

Legislative bodies continue to legitimize systemic racism.