Madam Speaker, this week, I was pleased to announce the city of Buffalo Fire Department has been awarded a Federal grant of more than $8.9 million by the Department of Homeland Security's Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response…

I would like to congratulate the EPA for its impressive Scientific Integrity Policy, particularly as I worked to pass the Scientific Integrity Act.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 6 o'clock and 31 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 10 a.m. for…

If I accomplish one thing in Congress, it is that little by little it is beginning to change the language.

We cannot stand for that, and to uphold and to deny... is to deny the impact of slavery in America.

We can't just talk about the climate crisis like it's any other issue. We have to tell the story of how we got here and how we can get out. We have to give people a clear sense of what winning looks like.

to deny the statehood of the District of Columbia is to deny the impact of slavery in America.

We need to give people in the District of Columbia the right to vote.

I have family that have been born without the right to a Federal vote and I have family that... have died without the right to vote.

I think that the Federal Government has an obligation--and the Congress can initiate that--to really set certain laws in place that become Federal law that override State laws...

This idea that we heard from the Department of Justice that we will not author any report that is critical of law enforcement is, quite frankly, a disservice to law enforcement.

I am here for White people and Black people and any other people that are victims of excessive force.

That memo also stopped the volunteer organizational assessments that Chief Hawkins talked about in Fayetteville.

We are not anti-police. We are anti-police brutality.

This Committee needs to investigate why incoming Attorney General Sessions...withheld and removed this designation.

Unless the Federal Government steps in and deals with Federal standards and Federal laws, we will be subjected to the local politics.

We must define--when we look at Gwen Carr, 5 years waiting on a decision from the Federal Government.

We need to have Federal law that sets various unimpugned standards that will be followed.