Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

We need to make sure that diverse consumers have equal access to capital.

We must continue providing resources so that institutions can better serve their diverse populations.

My district is 77-percent Latino, and it includes many people whose preferred language is not English.

Access to the banking system is a critical step in building access to credit and, thereby, access to wealth building.

I look forward to receiving it.

I worry that it will be impossible for us to recover from this pandemic.

I know it is easy to get abstract when we talk about the impact of global debt, but my constituents know we are talking about people's lives too.

I think that is like saying Amazon democratized reading, because big players like Citadel, the only companies large enough to handle all these trades, are getting way bigger.

People in working-class communities like mine don't know how they will retire. They are worried about whether their parents are going to live.

We also support legislation such as the Protect Older Job Applicants Act championed by Representative Sylvia Garcia.

The truth of the matter is, is there is no everybody else, because of the unduly burdensome barriers to immigration that make it impossible to whether there's no general purpose line

The bottom line is, we need change, and we need it now.

This hearing is especially important to me, because we have to think a lot about the bond market where I come from.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you and Ranking Member Barr for holding this hearing.

These discriminatory bills are not about voter security. They are about voter suppression, by preserving partisan political advantage by burdening minority communities.

This was not about 'stopping the steal.' It has been about stopping the lies that have cost lives.

These baseless claims were pushed far enough to lead a mob to desecrate our U.S. Capitol.

It is appalling to know that the right to vote remains under constant attack.

I think we need to start thinking about expanding and applying the Gramm-Leach-Bliley privacy provisions to a whole host of larger institutions and larger conglomerates.

The Rule undermines the ability of States like mine and more than a dozen others to protect consumers from predatory lending.

What I am worried about is that the business model of many companies we are discussing today is either take advantage of consumers or take advantage of regulated competitors.

I represent a working-class, largely immigrant district, and my district in Illinois needs the same things as any other district.

After years of Federal underfunding in housing and infrastructure, I am so grateful, Mr. Chairman, for President Biden recognizing the need for Federal investment in both affordable and equitable housing.

And without having sane and sensible guest worker programs with protections, without having family unification, without having alternative means of immigration, it is not simply that the people will come.

I arrived in this country from Mexico when I was a child.