Running the country through virtual proceedings and proxy votes is unacceptable.
There is a path forward. We have seen from the May jobs report last month, with 2.5 million jobs added to the economy.
that is a very sober assessment. We need to have a return to normalcy once this crisis passes.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing today.
Before I sign off, would you let the record show that on the Democratic side of the aisle, Mr. Veasey and I stayed with you till the end.
We can and should be at work here in Washington, and I urge my Democrat colleagues to make that a priority moving forward.
Money is not a cure-all solution and it is irresponsible to blindly throw more money at this situation.
Just as our teachers are working to overcome the many challenges this global pandemic poses, this Nation's elected officials must also step ...
I am just so disappointed that many of our Republican colleagues just cannot embrace a vote-by-mail idea.
Those were code words back during the voting rights movement, code words for States' rights, and I pushback whenever I hear that.
I think our charge is to make sure that every voter has the absolute right to vote.
But that is our legislation, to provide 100 percent of the cost of the November election for every State in the country.
I am a D.C. politician. I am an elected official of 750,000 people.
I hope that is not the case. I was looking at a poll this morning, a Gallup poll, which said that 64 percent of those polled favor a vote-by...
I ask you, please, with the greatest of respect and humility, please stop this 'defund the police' abomination before someone gets hurt.
There is something sickening and awful about what we witnessed happen to Mr. Floyd. This should not occur, we are better than that as a popu...
I think we all have an interest in ensuring that the broad base of the populous in our country, whether rural or urban, whether living on th...
I appreciate, for one, the ability to do this, even though we are not physically this week in Washington.
