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.

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.

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

As a woman, as a feminist, as someone who lettered in basketball and truly believes in women's sports, this is the Equality Act. Any misrepresentation by some speakers today is just totally unfounded. While we have made much progress in…

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?

When we talk about wealth in this country and opportunities to build wealth, we have to talk about housing.

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

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.

Our community can't get the investment they need.

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

The worst of it is no water for the flushing, it sure going to be great when all of us have safe drinking water.

I am a very proud--and I am going to repeat that--proud original cosponsor of H.R. 40, because it is important that our Nation heals by finding the facts, understanding the lingering effects of slavery in the United States, and finding…