I rise to speak in opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act. As written, this legislation authorizes $778 billion in defense spending just for next year alone. That is more money than we spent on defense during the Korean or…

I think it’s going to pass the House tonight. It’s going to go through what we call a scrub after that.

I thank Chairman Neal for his incredible work in putting together this bill and all his leadership and friendship. And today, we have the build back better agenda before us that was built on conversations that President Biden had with the…

Tonight, the vote we cast is about history.

I thank my dear and fierce colleague from New Mexico for convening us this evening. Madam Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the communities in my district and across our Nation who for too long have been asked to wait, for those who have…

It started with a white supremacist online fringe movement, and it turned into a deadly January 6 insurrection. Now I stand before you because a Member of this body has once again had her life threatened, but this time by a colleague who…

I believe that banking regulators should use the tools in their toolkit to make sure that no bank, small or especially large, gets away with repeated violations of the law, especially when that hurts real families and real businesses on…

Let`s get Build Back Better done, so that we`re really creating the infrastructure, so we have got the child care, so those mamas in particular can go back to work.

If we really are talking about what affects people`s pocketbooks every single day, week after week, year after here, it`s these big expenses.

Whoa, Professor Omarova, I think I know why you are being attacked so viciously. These banks want to avoid accountability, and they certainly want to avoid personal liability for their executives, and they are willing to do whatever it…

We have recognized that the war on drugs put a lot of people behind bars for doing nothing more than smoking marijuana.

Let’s raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher in America. Let’s make those jobs. The way we made construction jobs two generations ago, good middle-class jobs.

This is the reason that we need Build Back Better. If we really are talking about what affects people’s pocketbooks every single day, week after week, year after here, it’s these big expenses.

It is time to acknowledge the changes, acknowledge our mistakes from the past, and say... let`s just take nonviolent offenders, people who have violated those old marijuana laws, and let`s turn them loose, and let`s expunge those records.

This is a vicious smear campaign, coordinated by Republicans who are doing the bidding of giant banks...

I know that the giant banks object to your willingness to enforce the law to keep our system safe and that you may cut into big bank profits.

If we really -- this were just ordinary inflation, we might see prices go up, but prices at the pump have gone up. Why? Well, let me give you a hint. Chevron, Exxon have doubled their profits. This isn`t about inflation. This is about…

Let’s get Build Back Better done, so that we’re really creating the infrastructure, so we have got the child care, so those mamas in particular can go back to work.