Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. Mr. Speaker, I grew up on a farm. I was taught at an early age how to handle a .22 and shotgun. We used them for hunting, to put food on the table. But…

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Madam Speaker, 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…

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?