It has not worked. It has not united families.

We have thousands of U.S. citizens literally in my community that cannot get their spouses access to a legal pathway.

Do you know what the average wait time for them to get adjustment of status? Not approval, because they will get approved, you know, sometimes within a year or so.

We always focus so much on the border, but let us talk about so-called 'legal immigration' in our country.

I think both Democrats and Republicans have failed our immigrant neighbors in our country.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I strongly support H.J. Res. 98 to overturn the Biden administration's joint employer rule which would directly harm employees across this Nation--employees who can become and do become…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall no. 10. Stated against:

During my first term in Congress as a freshman member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, we had a hearing at which we heard from a young woman researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had taken the very…

Today South Africa will present its case against the Israeli Government at the International Court of Justice. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the link for the case: https://…

Now that we are back in Washington and starting some very serious conversations, I wanted to make clear where I stand on an issue that I think most Americans, certainly most Members of Congress, believe is of urgent importance, and that is…

Our communities, as you all know, are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and these floods are only continuing to get worse.

I refuse to accept this as our new normal.

I am here once again, obviously, to talk about how we can protect our neighbors from flooding and contamination in the water.

Our residents deserve better. They deserve action.

We can have an assault weapons ban. We can have waiting periods. We can have extreme risk protection orders or red flag laws.

Crime and violence against small businesses defy the core tenets of economic freedom and empowerment our country and our economy is built on.

In 2024, in the U.S., there have already been 1,137 gun violence-related deaths and seven mass shootings.

Just this past November, 216 of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted to prohibit funding for the CDC's firearm injury and mortality prevention research.