It is 2016. I am writing an article that sounds like I was sitting in 1955. That gives me great concern. So when I think about our topic tonight, our work continues. What matters in the African American community I think we have answered…

Congressman Jeffries, you have given us a lot to reflect on tonight. You have given us the roll call of how President after President has reauthorized the Voting Rights Act. As I was listening to you, it appears that there is an uncommon…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman John Larson. As I was listening to him reflect on the wonderful program that we are all going to be able to participate in at the Library of Congress-- as I listened to his words, 51 years ago the President…

Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening for tonight's Congressional Black Caucus Special Order Hour: The Work Continues--Why Voting Matters in the African American Community. I am so proud to join my classmate, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries from…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members be given 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to add any extraneous materials relevant to the subject matter of this discussion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

I was so very wrong, so very wrong.

If they were there because they had cancer, people would be in the streets.

I just want to make sure we are keeping the focus on mental health as we do this...

I appreciate your partnership in efforts to open up the Cuba market for ag exports.

I really believe that we should be focusing on humane and humanitarian crises rather than development.

I would hope, as we have talked, that in countries that are themselves, their government are taking property or if they are acquiescing to land grabbing that we should not be using the Millennium Challenge account to subsidize those…

It seems to me that Cuba trades with everybody in the hemisphere except us.

It seems to me that the U.S. policy against Cuba, the Castro regime, as articulated by Mr. Claver-Carone, a lot of reasons why the Government of Cuba is not acting appropriately by international standards.

It would just seem to me that that doesn't punish the Cubans. It helps the Vietnamese and it punishes the United States.

Madam President, I rise today to speak about something that guides the work of each and every one of us--the U.S. Constitution. Each and every one of us has taken an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United…

Kids cannot be in these schools. It is just unacceptable.

In Minnesota we have the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, the Bug School we call it on the reservation.

In my own congressional district in St. Paul, I had an electric utility that made the decision to convert from coal to gas.