House Committee on Financial Services

Ranking Member Maxine Waters speaks in support of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act:

“This legislation speaks to the real change that our constituents have been demanding—where everyone can afford a dignified place to call home, where tenants are protected, and working Americans can finally get ahead.”

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WATCH📺: Ranking Member Maxine Waters stands up for Californians at the Committee's disaster recovery hearing:

"I want to be disruptive today, and I want to talk about and the needs that we have that are not being met and what the President of the United States is not doing."

Task Force Ranking Member Congressman Juan Vargas at today's hearing examining the structure and history of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
"Robust transparency, congressional oversight are part of what makes the fed's Independence legitimate in the first place. The goal should be a that is answerable to the public and insulated from short term pressures."

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At today's Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing, Ranking Member Maxine Waters calls out the Trump Administration for failing to deliver on his promise to provide federal emergency assistance to .

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WATCH: Responding to Congresswoman Nikema Williams, witness stresses the need of beneficial ownership information as an essential tool to fight money laundering at this week's subcommittee hearing:

"I can say the one missing link that law enforcement needs is beneficial ownership information... [F]rom a law enforcement perspective is that's the one missing piece that we need. We need beneficial ownership information."

Ranking Member Maxine Waters: Trump always finds money for his vanity projects.
• A costly war with Iran
• A 250-foot “Triumphal Arch” in his own image
• A White House golden ballroom

But when California families lost their homes, businesses, and livelihoods to devastating wildfires, he couldn't find a dime for emergency disaster recovery.

Subcommittee Ranking Member Emanuel Cleaver II at today's hearing on the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program:
"Millions of Americans have faced increasingly catastrophic, life threatening extreme weather events. In 2024 and 2025 alone, the United States experienced 50 separate billion dollar disasters. Disaster survivors, including in my own home state of Missouri, need assistance."

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