Big-City Mayors

We have forwarded this letter to President Biden asking him to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list with at least 20 Members who have signed that letter.

That is right. It was an embarrassment, and it was a stigma on us. Welfare queens, that is what they tried to call us.

I thank Congresswoman Lee Carter for her leadership and her friendship. I was her mother's personal photographer, and we did travel the world. What Sheila wanted, Sheila got because she was a true warrior woman, as is Mrs. Lee Carter. Mr…

I thank my friend, Congressman Horsford, for that very sincere and very humbling statement and remarks. I thank him, again, for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Mrs. Lee Carter), who has made her mark in…

First of all, let me just say that I associate myself with the remarks that have been made tonight about my friend, the Honorable Dr. Michael Burgess. A couple of things that I thought, since I am retiring also and we are here on the floor…

The message is very clear, Police Commissioner Tisch, police department will find you and bring you to justice.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me, and I want to respond to Chairman McHenry and thank the gentleman for bringing up the story about George Wallace. I have an addendum to the story. I was working in her campaign during that…

She prided herself on bipartisan work. Actually, when I introduced the first resolution honoring her, I called her from the Cloakroom. She couldn't understand why there were no Republicans except Connie Morella on the floor speaking on…

First of all, let me take a moment to thank Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader Jeffries, Majority Leader Scalise, and Chairman McHenry for their leadership. Of course, I thank our ranking member, Maxine Waters, whom I met during the Shirley…

Pieces of the puzzle, they are still coming together, so we are on the right path and we believe we're going to apprehend this person.

I just wanted to add another dimension to this discussion regarding Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Her parents were from the Caribbean. Her father was from Guyana and her mother was from Barbados. Congresswoman Chisholm grew up in…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding and for her tremendous and steady leadership in bringing us all together during these very important Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hours. Yes, Congresswoman Chisolm made…

I rise this evening to commemorate World AIDS Day. This year's theme is Collective Action: Sustain and Accelerate HIV Progress. Indeed, our collective action has delivered immense success to overcome the AIDS epidemic. While our Federal…

I think that should be something that will last, but will require constant tending.

You shouldn’t have to have frequent flier status to sit next to your kids.

I think any change to that would need to come with some kind of justification, and any change to a rule has to go through a process.

We want airlines to succeed. We just want them to succeed by doing the right thing.

I think anyone who says that the last few years are an overreach is out of touch with his customers.

I’ll leave it to others to grade my performance, but we’ve been able to deliver the most transformative set of infrastructure investments in my lifetime.

The point of these fines is to make sure that they are less necessary in the future.

Nope. I wouldn't do any assumption. I will allow my legal team to handle that.

The president and the White House has failed New York City on this issue. Despite our police, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New…

I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you that I would be a target and a target I became.

I agree that we need to change in order to win elections, and we have to rebuild our party, and we have to reconnect to the most important place in America and that is the kitchen table of every American family.