Marcia Fudge in The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
On Budget & Economy:
COVID: protect homeowners, renters, small landlords
Q: What are your plans for what you want to do at HUD?A: I think the pressing thing is to deal with the adverse impacts of the COVID crisis. We've got to make sure that people can stay in their homes, or if they're renters, to stay in their
apartments. The first thing is keep people in their homes, as well as to assist some of these landlords, who are not these mega apartment owners but just a small landlords who are who are struggling as well.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 10, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Ban discrimination against African American hairstyles
She cosponsored legislation that would ban discrimination against African American hairstyles in federally funded institutions and in the workplace and prodded the
Defense Department to review a decision to restrict braids, cornrows, twists, and dreadlocks which are popular among African American women.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
On Government Reform:
Filed complaint against colleagues sleeping in their offices
Along with several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, she filed a House Ethics Committee complaint against an estimated 50 to 100 of her congressional colleagues who sleep in their offices, asking why they should sleep in
for free in a public building while they were "cutting benefits to the poor, the mentally ill, to education, to veterans housing."
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
On Immigration:
Denying green cards to needy immigrants is discrimination
Rep. Marcia Fudge says a new Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to legal immigrants if they're perceived to need public assistance would "codify discrimination."
A Department of Homeland Security rule would turn away prospective immigrants who it deems likely to rely on government support for a significant period to meet their basic needs.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Transition
Jan 23, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Skipped Trump's inauguration in protest
When Donald Trump was sworn in as president in 2017, Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge skipped his inauguration in protest. Fudge can be a sharp-tongued partisan - she called for Trump's impeachment during his first
year in office and read a letter on the House of Representatives floor that called Trump supporters "racist, steeped in religious beliefs, ignorant, or, as my mother used to say, just plain dumb."
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Co-founded a Congressional Rock and Roll Caucus
She co-founded a Congressional Rock and Roll Caucus that hosts periodic
Capitol Hill events to highlight the work of Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
On Principles & Values:
A Cabinet position is not a consolation prize
Q: Do you feel this HUD appointment is a consolation prize, as opposed to getting the Agriculture Secretary job that you wanted?A: No, I don't think so. You can't even say that a Cabinet position can be a consolation prize. No Cabinet position can
be a consolation prize. I am more than honored and pleased and humbled to be asked to be in the Cabinet of a president that I think is going to make such significant change. And mind you, I can help poor people as much at HUD as I could at Ag.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 10, 2020
On Welfare & Poverty:
Introduced a Poverty Bill of Rights
She has introduced legislation urging Congress to enact a "Poverty Bill of Rights," to reaffirm the right of all Americans to live a life free from poverty and its impacts.
Several of the bills she introduced to make food more available to low-income people during the COVID-19 pandemic became part of relief packages that were signed into law.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
On Welfare & Poverty:
We have to deal with lack of low, moderate income housing
Her immediate priority will be how to keep people in their homes during the coronavirus crisis, and assist small landlords who are struggling. Her second task will be to "figure out how devastated this agency has become and what kinds of things we need
to do to make it work the way it should by empowering communities and neighborhoods to make sure that people can live in a decent house or apartment. You know, deal with the lack of low-income and moderate income housing in this country."
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Biden Cabinet
Dec 13, 2020
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