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We have to start owning what we can and can't do. We're not very good at rebuilding countries.

The goal of my campaign is to make this an economy that allows us to live our human values and aspirations.

The only way we will win is if we bring them together. Money finds a way, so what is the answer? The answer is to wash the money out with people-powered money.

This president has pursued an arbitrary and haphazard trade policy that has had victims on both sides.

Mr. Speaker, I am a New York Representative whose district is about 10 miles from the World Trade Center, and I lost many friends and constituents in that horrendous attack. Many years ago, President Roosevelt stood right here in this…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my good friend and New Yorker, my colleague, Carolyn Maloney, for organizing this evening so that we can all remember. Eighteen years have passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks, but the memory of this…

Mr. President, I rise to join my colleagues in discussing our country's horrific gun violence epidemic. I have risen to speak of this problem many times over the years, and to be honest it is exasperating to have to do it over and over…

The events of September 11th transformed how we think about what it means to be safe in our communities.

It is my hope that this committee will once again find bipartisan agreement on a multiyear CFATS extension.

I understand the Homeland Security Committee marked up this bill 12 weeks ago--that it passed on a straight party line vote with no Republicans supporting it.

We learned a hard lesson that we must always be vigilant and acknowledge that our federal government... plays a critical role in safeguarding the health and safety.

I am skeptical of making any major changes to the program that would either dilute or divert the Department from its statutory mission.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in support of H.R. 241, the Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act. As chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, I am very focused on…

We owe it to a generation of veterans to provide this valuable screening tool.

Every sexual assault in the military is a failure to protect the men and women who have volunteered to defend us.

Madam President, I begin this morning with some news for my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. As stipulated by the National Emergencies Act, Democrats will once again force a vote to terminate the President's national emergency…

Rochester has, over the last several years, been identified as either number two or three in terms of childhood poverty in the United States among cities.

I think this is a really, really important topic.