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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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