I want to compliment FEMA. We were under siege as all of us were in COVID-19.
I can say, unequivocally, that the war on drugs was a failure of policy.
This is the moment that we must deal with this question.
I hope that this committee, in a bipartisan manner, with Mr. Biggs, the Ranking Member, has made some very important poi...
I believe Representative Deutch on our Committee has a bill, the EQUAL Defense Act, that was also sponsored by our curre...
This so-called 'trial penalty' punishes individuals for exercising their constitutional right.
It is that trial penalty, the mandatory minimums, and the discretion in sentencing taken away from judges and given to p...
The right to trial is established in our Constitution. However, we know that over the past few decades plea bargains hav...
What is the process that occurs with a stakeholder reaches out to the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties?
I think it is very important that either we as the Congress continues to increase that funding, but also I would encoura...
Congress' approach to crack cocaine and the entire framework of mandatory minimum sentences is one example of how the fa...
We know the harm we've done with the disparate sentencing around crack cocaine. It doesn't save us anything to not rever...
On this vote, the yeas are 415, and the nays are 14, the bill is passed.
On this vote, the yeas are 415 and the nays are 14. The bill is passed.
Representative Lee led a similar effort in the House that would have created a 1-1 ratio in H.R. 4545.
I agree, and this is why I am working on legislation with the Senate, and we intend to introduce legislation in short or...
I think this is a lesson we teach young people in preschool and in middle school, in high school and college and adults,...
Let me thank the administration for its humanitarian treatment of this very difficult portion of the immigration unaccom...
