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For every young person who`s ever wondered whether or not your vote counts, you should have no doubt in your mind now. If your vote didn`t matter they wouldn`t be working so hard to try to stop it. So don`t let anybody take your voice or…

Those of us who have the honor of representing the people in both houses of Congress, the only reason where there and able to argue about anything, is because somebody voted for us to be there. And so this, this whole cell systemic effort…

Meanwhile, here in Washington, the Democratic majority is cheerfully pushing more legislation to incentivize more illegals coming here. We have this bill promoting amnesty. We are literally exalting illegals in this country over those who…

For 135 years, our church has been bearing witness to God’s love and justice in the world.

In a moment like this, we have just got to bind together. Dr. King, the greatest son of Georgia, said that we’re tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one directly affects all indirectly. And so we have got to walk…

And we saw, with this terrible tragedy, the ways in which violence gets visited upon communities of color, upon women. And I know folks are sorting through the weeds of the killer’s motives, but we know hate when we see it.

I stand before you saying that this issue, access to voting, and pre-empting politician`s efforts to restrict voting is so fundamental to our democracy that it is too important to be held hostage by a senate rule, especially one…

I’m privileged to preach from the pulpit from which Dr. King preached, and from which he spoke not only to his parishioners, but to a nation and helped us to understand that the call and the quest for democracy, for civil rights is a…

This wholesale systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans, it’s a threat to the democracy itself.

My view is that we have to pass voting rights whether we get rid of the filibuster or not, whatever reforms come.

There is no question that we are going to have a serious conversation about the filibuster. That’s going to happen.

There’s a Ghanaian proverb that says, when you pray, move your feet. And so we have got to move our feet. We have got to get involved.

Dr. King, the greatest son of Georgia, said that we’re tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one directly affects all indirectly. And so we have got to walk with our Asian sisters and brothers through this moment.

And it’s a great thing that the vice president of the United States right now is the first Asian American vice president, first African American vice president, first woman.

I think it is critical that we make more investment, both public investments with Government funds but also help leverage private investment, into investing in those communities.

I think folks knew for a long time prior to Hurricane Katrina what happened in the old 9th Ward was predictable.

I think the Community Reinvestment Act is critical, and climate resilience and adaptation mitigation efforts should be integrated into the Community Reinvestment Act.

We have seen more recently financial regulators take more seriously the impact of climate on our larger financial system, but as you point out, we have got to do much more.