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While I share this goal, it is essential that we maintain the ability to deploy counterterrorism capabilities and gather necessary intelligence.

I applaud the Trump administration for recognizing the challenge of emerging and competing threats in the 2018 National Strategy for Counterterrorism.

It is now well-established that in 2016 foreign actors targeted the African-American community by way of social media in efforts to keep African Americans from voting in the presidential election.

The ability for virtually anyone to post thoughts and pictures and videos to social media has shed many of the systemic injustices and disparities that exist both in our country and around the world.

Further, in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately impacts communities of color, falsehoods have been spread from all--from our own president about the virus's treatment and testing and origins, deepening already existing divides…

The data that is coming out of the states shows the necessity, the absolute necessity for a national strategy.

In response to COVID-19, Congress has appropriated significant funding through the CARES Act.

It seems to me that the President seems to think that COVID is over and he can just push it all to the states.

The Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, led by Congresswoman Robin Kelly, has met with some or all of you.

This should concern all of us, Mr. Chairman.

There is a path forward. We have seen from the May jobs report last month, with 2.5 million jobs added to the economy.

Before COVID-19, unemployment was at record lows, including minority unemployment.

The likelihood of poverty in a two-parent family drops to 9 percent from as high as 39 percent in single-parent families.

Running the country through virtual proceedings and proxy votes is unacceptable.

And that is the same State where the State health director, I believe, took her own mother out of the long-term care facility before she enforced the rule to allow those people to come back in. That is one of the most shameful things that…

What significant policies and economic conditions resulted in the historically low rates which existed before the pandemic?

Americans are stepping up to help combat this virus while their elected leaders in the House entrusted with the job of representing their constituents stay home.

These virtual events undermine what our Founders intended when they created our representative Republic.