Everyone deserves the right to breathe clean air.
We need more air monitoring, and we need more programs for mitigation.
My district now has the highest number of people that are uninsured of any district in the country.
For my district, environmental issues are not just health issues but also social justice issues.
I represent 42 percent of the southern border.
We are seeing the chaos on the border. We are seeing the chaos on the nation. And there has never been a time more chaot...
Those communities have been the victims of environmental injustice for decades, and we can do better.
I am simply devastated about the ways that the horrific legacy of slavery is built into the very structure of the U.S. b...
One major way to close the racial wealth gap is by ensuring that all people have access to credit for pursuing homeowner...
I am proud to represent the Texas 29th Congressional District that includes part of Houston, South Houston, Pasadena, Ja...
It is our job as lawmakers to study the origins of these problems so that we can identify them and root them out.
I would like for you now to give me one quick answer, each of you, and I will start with Dr. Berry.
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day, not only to remind us of the horrors of slavery, but also of the need for atonement.
I think we have a responsibility to legislate with that in mind when we consider bills that may further affect the rate ...
This is in part why--a large part, I might add--I introduced H.J.Res. 64, calling for an annual day of to prevent the sa...
I introduced the cyber defense, Cyber Deterrence and Response Act to really remove any ambiguity for a would-be attacker...
Although the practice of slavery may have been legal at one time, it was, without question, a profoundly immoral practic...
When you are telling individuals that they can enter this country illegally and there will be no consequences for their ...
