U.S. House of Representatives

For more than 250 years, generations of Michiganders and Americans across the country have answered the call to serve, putting their lives on the line to defend our nation, preserve our democracy, and protect the freedoms we all hold dear.

Mr. Chairman, there are many things we still can do… One of them is not to expedite nominees who have not been carefully vetted. I hope we don’t accept that as a standard in this Committee.

It’s not too late to change course. If [Republicans] are listening to the American people, I would suggest that you abandon these efforts [and instead] hold our regular DOJ oversight hearings; that we hold a hearing finally with Big Tech…

The majority is also violating numerous longstanding [Committee] standards in a desperate attempt to confirm the [un]qualified loyalists to lifetime appointments before Democrats take the majority.

Unfortunately, it appears our Republican colleagues, who I thought learned a lesson from last Tuesday’s election, did not get the message…

Last week, on Election Day, the American people rejected this Administration’s corruption and cruelty overwhelmingly.

Before appointing a person to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, shouldn’t we take a close look at their background?

What we are seeing here is an effort to scramble quickly to resurrect defeated candidates in Texas and others to fill positions on the federal district court before Senator Talarico is sworn in on January 3.

Under the Committee’s precedents, these two nominees can’t be confirmed before the end of this Congress…So, Republicans are breaking the rules to jam through these nominees and avoid on obvious thing—on January 3, there will be a new…

Why? Because the Republicans are losing the majority and they’re afraid that unqualified MAGA loyalists won’t withstand close scrutiny when Democrats are in the majority.

In the waning days of this Congress, in light of the last [week’s] election, the Chairman is violating numerous longstanding Committee norms that Republicans and Democratic Chairs alike have followed for years, without consent from the…

A lifetime appointment for a federal district trial judge, I just don’t see how you put it together.

To take a lifetime appointment for a federal district court, which is primarily a trial driven court, or at least preparation for trial, and not have any experience with the things I have asked you here, really raises the question of why…

So, as I wind down my time in Congress, let me implore upon President Trump and this new Congress: don’t give up on Ukraine.

While President Trump belittles our ally and befriends our enemy, he is also trying to entice Putin with business deals as if this is some kind of real estate scheme… This effort is doomed to fail.

This leads me to the ongoing war in Ukraine, a war President Trump said he would end on his first day re-elected to the White House.

As a kid from East St. Louis, I never imagined that I would be lucky enough to cast 17,000 votes in the United States Congress. To everyone who gave that kid a chance to serve: thank you. It has been an honor.

But President Trump’s reckless decision to throw our country into war in the Middle East means there’s a new generation of veterans facing conditions that could be hazardous to their health.

Our New PACT for Iran Veterans Act would ensure no servicemember fights a war overseas only to come home and be faced with another battle to get the care they’ve rightfully earned through their service.

With a new generation of troops being thrown into another war in the Middle East, our nation must learn the lessons from previous conflicts and proactively ensure Iran Veterans don’t suffer from those same mistakes.

By establishing the landmark PACT Act, our nation finally helped generations of Veterans who suffered from toxic exposure in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan more easily access the care they needed after being stonewalled by bureaucratic tape…

We have work to do, and I’m grateful to be part of it.

Our wins for the American people are enduring, and we will defend them as we find solutions to new challenges and push back on harmful proposals.

We face major political headwinds in the 120th Congress, and it is critical that we hold the line on our hard-won legislative accomplishments.