Here’s the bottom line. The Republicans are already shutting down good chunks of the government. Democrats don’t want to shut down, but it’s in Republicans’ hands; it’s up to them.

the best thing that’s happened to Democrats this year because voters won’t like it, and Democrats will benefit.

In terms of trying to get in the appropriations bills undoing lots of the many things that they’ve done that are wrong, yes, we’re certainly going to make an effort to do that.

if the Senate held a vote on Kennedy under a secret ballot, 'Mr. Kennedy would never come close to becoming confirmed.'

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 77, the so-called Midnight Rules Relief Act. Despite the bill's title, this legislation is not really intended to address midnight rules at all. Instead…

In the 2 years since the Dobbs decision, we have seen nothing short of an all-out assault on our reproductive rights and our reproductive freedoms, including a steady march to pass a national abortion ban coupled with efforts to roll back…

As our Nation celebrates Black History Month, I rise to honor Staten Island's own Black Angels. Seventy years ago, tuberculosis plagued our Nation, killing over 1 billion worldwide and accounting for nearly 18 percent of all deaths in New…

New York is proud that immigrants from across the globe come here searching for a better life — people like my grandparents who left Ireland looking for the American dream.

We expect Pam Bondi's worthless, publicity-driven lawsuit to be a total failure, just like all the others. Let me be clear: New York is not backing down.

What I've reinforced is the fact that we have always worked with ICE when it comes to removing people who have committed serious crimes.

There's no way I'm letting federal agents, or Elon Musk's shadowy DOGE operation, get unfettered access to the personal data of any New Yorker in the DMV system.

Don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again?

Trump considers every abortion a tragedy.

I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy.

I’m gonna say to NIH scientists: God bless you all. Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.

Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse.

You cannot depend upon what people are telling you.

Is Ms. Gabbard really who Republicans want leading Intelligence Agencies? I'll bet not. Is she the best person we could find for the important position of Director of National Intelligence?