Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

As a young woman in Texas, I marched with hundreds of other women in support of the equal rights amendment. Today, I stand with all my colleagues here to affirm our support for women's equality. Women are behind some of the Nation's…

Words matter from our President, from our leaders, for anyone with a platform, which is why I'm here today to ask those of you who are leading us to speak out for us instead of encouraging hate.

It's a shameful thing to have to say, 'Don't listen to what your President is saying. Don't listen to what your Senator is saying.'

As President Biden has said, violence against Asian Americans is un-American and it must stop.

It is inherently un-American for anyone to discriminate and launch vicious hate crimes against an Asian American.

I hope you continue in your efforts because I think it would be very, very helpful and, of course, transparency does matter.

But the recent attacks against our Asian-American brothers and sisters... highlights that there still remains direct, hard racism in this country.

What do you think that regulators such as FSOC should do to keep the volatility that we saw in January from affecting our whole financial system?

In short, they think about a game rigged against them. And if you ask me, what happened to GameStop earlier this year proves them right.

Last month's GameStop hearing revealed a lot of different viewpoints about what happened, who was responsible, and what we can do about it.

I mean, that doesn't sound like a commitment to change that to me, when you are saying it will be an option.

I was consistently disturbed with the actions of CID and the negative impact it had had on the Vanessa Guillen case.

It has been almost a year since the family of Vanessa Guillen first contacted my office for help.

We need to be able to, through your work in the committee, and through your work in Congress, make policies that matter, and really innovative policies that are going to be able to move the needle.

We need to be able to really take that on head on and be able to start to dismantle that through policies, practices, and ideology.

So, obviously, increasing the diversity of the financial sector... helps reduce that type of thinking and fosters more openness and more tolerance and more working together as neighbors.

I think it is great that we are doing it at the Full Committee level so that we can all benefit from all of the great information.

What do you hope to see from the Biden Administration regulators to protect clients, and what can Congress do to fix it?

Last Congress, I introduced the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act to create a 36 percent interest cap nationwide.

The fact is that my constituents need the same things that every neighborhood needs. They want good jobs with a living wage.

Financial equity is, of course, an urgent issue for communities like mine in Chicago. I represent a working-class predominantly Latino district.

Should we look at other punishment, if you will? Should we look at criminal sanctions for intentional discrimination by the landlords, the builders, the mortgage companies?

I want to start with Ms. Rice. Ms. Rice, the Center for Investigative Reporting report revealed that out of 31 million Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records, that modern-day redlining still exists in 61 metro areas in our country.

Working-class Latino and Black people are being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by wealthier White residents.

Most of my constituents are renters, and the housing crisis they are facing now under COVID-19 isn't new.