Today the nation`s unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent. That`s the sharpest one year drop in unemployment in U.S. history.

We need to first confront the truth of what is going on right now and who is fueling these crazy conspiracy theories, these lies that have turned into violence.

Those of us trapped in the gallery, we lived it, ducking, crawling under over railings, hands knees, the sounds, the smells. We had a front row seat to what lies, hate or plain old misinformation conjures. We went from victims, to…

the Capitol attack a year ago was a dagger at the throat of democracy.

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To me, the true patriots were the more than 150 (sic) Americans who peacefully expressed their vote at the ballot box, the election workers who protected the integrity of the vote, and the heroes who defended this Capitol. You can't love…

Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Or are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people. Are we going to be a nation that lives…

We saw with our own eyes rioters menace these halls, threatening the life of the speaker of the House, literally erecting gallows to hang the vice president of the United States of America.

For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

We must pass the voting rights bills that are now before the Senate, and the American people must also do something more.

It’s up to all of us—to 'We the People'—to stand for the rule of law, to preserve the flame of democracy, to keep the promise of America alive.

What was at stake then, and now, is the right to have our future decided the way the Constitution prescribes it: by we, the people—all the people.

The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He`s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interests as more important than his country`s…

Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America.

The strength of democracy is the rule of law. The strength of democracy is the principle that everyone should be treated equally, that elections should be free and fair.

One year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked.

We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. The way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it.

I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today but I will not shrink from it either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, not allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.