Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

Ensuring everyone in the United States can thrive financially is not only the right thing to do, but it is also the smart thing to do for a country which has about 380 spoken languages.

I urge the committee's immediate consideration and support for my bills: the Community Finance Language Inclusion Act, H.R. 2834; and the Multilingual Financial Literacy Act, H.R. 2835.

Today, that country we live in is also home to millions of Dreamers, people who were brought here to the United States as children and who grew up here.

Our role as lawmakers is a special one. We are empowered by the Constitution to make laws which are necessary and proper, to serve the Nation as it changes in whatever form that may be.

Therefore, U.S. sanctions in Iran are critically important.

I am proud to have supported passage yesterday of the bipartisan resolution expressing strong support for Israel and its right to defend herself against Hamas and other terrorist groups in the region.

Like most of my colleagues, I strongly condemn the horrific October 7th attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel.

A recent study found that nearly 2,000 lives could have been saved in Texas if it had reached the vaccination levels of places like Vermont or Connecticut.

We know that being unvaccinated makes you up to 17 times--17 times--more likely to die of COVID compared to people who are vaccinated and boosted.

Shamefully, rural South Texas and all of rural Texas has been utterly devastated by COVID-19.

Proxy advisers serve an important role in the market.

However, Republicans are going about reforms, in my judgment, in the wrong way today.

This hearing today is another example of what some of our Republicans are calling so-called anti-woke agenda.

I am introducing a bill today called the Workforce Investment Disclosure Act.

ESG disclosures are about transparency. This benefits workers, consumers, and investors.

By eliminating corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, Republicans are directly harming communities like mine in my district, which is 77-percent Latino and over 90-percent people of color.

ESG disclosures include information like quantitative and qualitative disclosures related to climate-related risks, and human capital disclosures like diversity and inclusion.

I sit on this committee to make sure that the most-marginalized people in our society have a champion...

Thank you for being here with us today, Ms. Barbero.

I believe that allowing private companies to be stablecoin issuers is very dangerous.

I would like to start by highlighting my frustration with the stripping of some very important provisions from those earlier negotiations.

Most whistleblowers aren't interested in being political pawns in congressional Republicans' games.

This circus of unvetted, secret accusations put at risk the critical role whistleblowers play in holding the powerful accountable.

Our nation is facing a housing crisis, and this committee did constant work on this issue under the leadership of then-Chairwoman Waters.

Were your paid lobbyists urging Congress to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act, and enhance prudential standards for regional banks?