It is headed to the Senate. We expect the Senate to do the right thing. You know, I said awhile ago that if the filibuster, that antiquated procedural process, stands in the way of pertinent legislation, particularly voting rights or civil…

Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said, that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the…

Madam Speaker, my mother was a maid and my father a janitor, but they were good, decent, honest people who saw voting as their duty and knew their vote mattered regardless of who they were and where they lived. When did some of us, as…

You know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You got to do what you have to do. But I recommend, take the vaccines. I did it. It`s good. Take the vaccines.

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4, critical legislation that confronts the crisis facing our democracy. In Florida, we witnessed a Republican legislature attempting to cling to power through voter suppression, taking…

Madam Speaker, the American people have spoken. It is time to build back better. Today's historic vote shows that President Biden and the Democratic Congress are united and that we are keeping our promises to the American people who put us…

Madam Speaker, over the past decades when officials in Florida tried to restrict access to the ballot box, the Voting Rights Act provided protections for all Floridians to cast their vote. Maybe they limited hours of voting, or didn't…

Madam Speaker, let's be bipartisanly honest here for a moment. We just walked out of probably the most bipartisan moment in the last couple of years, a classified briefing with the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary, the Secretary of State, and…

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Representative Gallagher's bill, to get us some simple facts: How many Americans are stranded and are we going to get them home. Yes, these issues are important. We should debate these issues…

But it would seem the cruelty is the point. After all, your health is secondary to the economy, am I right?

In the short-term, we went from a situation, where the Taliban were our hostages, to a situation, where Americans, and those that helped us, are now basically the hostages of the Taliban, within Afghanistan.

If our people aren't safer, then we shouldn't move out of there. And I don't think that that metric is going to be met.

There has to be an objective that's met, in order to actually withdraw. Otherwise, you're just doing it for optics.

For Governor Ron DeSantis, there is more bad news, at least politically, his opposition to mask mandates doesn't seem to be popular.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been appallingly derelict in doing anything to fight the pandemic, from prioritizing Regeneron popup clinics over vaccinations to declaring open war on educators looking to protect the state`s school…

DeSantis touted a return to business as usual. He joined the cavalcade of Republican governor prematurely cutting off federal enhanced unemployment assistance, claiming it was deterring people from getting back to work in a pandemic that…

Apparently, DeSantis has been just too busy declaring war on school districts over masks to ask for federal dollars for kids who miss meals because they weren`t going to school.

Perhaps he doesn`t understand that homelessness makes pandemics worse. Or maybe he does and doesn`t care.