Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

This body has found that arbitration clauses were not fair to the consumer, and I can tell you as a consumer myself, I find them really repugnant.

I applaud you for that. I think that is a step in the right direction.

As banks get larger and larger, they become more difficult to manage, as I am sure you will experience, to regulate and enforce existing rules, and they risk becoming too-big-to-fail and put our entire economy at risk.

The impact of big banks' greed wiped out wealth for millions, including more than half of the wealth that Black Americans owned in our country.

That is why I introduced, with Senator Warren in the Senate, the Bank Merger Review Modernization Act, to stop the rubber stamping of bank mergers.

I am honored to be able to chair this very important hearing today.

Looking ahead, incorporating climate change into economic forecasts will become more important.

Extreme weather events have had a great impact on the Midwest and working-class communities like those in my Chicago district.

Hunter Biden was not on trial. The president of the United States was on trial.

And if he's seeking help from a foreign country, or more than one foreign country, any help from any foreign person that means he's interfering with my free right to have my say.

I think if he's got -- if he surrounding himself with people like, that are enabling him to do whatever he wants, he will do whatever he wants.

He's not been exonerated.

I have seen how predatory payday loans and sky-high interest rates are trapping too many consumers into debt traps.

If my colleague Val Demings was still the sheriff in Orlando and she called you for some help on a robbery, would you do that?

I think we pursue very aggressively.

I urge you to rethink your proposal.

But what Vice President Biden became the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and polls shows that he had the largest head to head lead against President Trump, that became a problem.

One of the greatest drivers of gentrification throughout the country has been driven by unchecked and unguided transit-oriented development

The so-called Opportunity Zones, created as a part of President Trump's 2017 tax overhaul, appear to incentivize Wall Street's investment in gentrifying neighborhoods rather than in affordable housing.

The private equity firm, Blackstone, has become the largest landlord in the country.

I must confess, I am moved by four-fifths of the panel with many of the concerns that you have clearly articulated and warned us about if this proposed CRA rule is approved.

I would like to note that my bill, the Bank Merger Review Modernization Act, requires merging banks to have outstanding CRA performance records and a strong community benefits plan.

I have never found them to be adequate.

This President has put his personal interest above this country.

It is incredible to me that the other side of the aisle has not seen the facts.