It is time to turn the page and to create a new drug policy for America, including offering alternatives to incarceration and increasing access to treatment.

I believe it is important for us to see and remember the impact of our failed past approaches during the so-called war on drugs.

For far too long, our country has taken the wrong approach to drug abuse, criminalizing substance use instead of preventing and treating it.

I oppose this measure and continue to object to this excessive approach that expands the application of mandatory minimum sentences.

That approach was wrong and continues to be wrong, disparately impacting African American communities while fueling mass incarceration.

Most drugs enter U.S. through legal ports of entry, not vast, open border.

Mr. Speaker, for too many communities in southeastern Pennsylvania, the steady toll of gun violence day in and day out is a horrifying reality. Right now, my region is at the epicenter of a staggering uptick in gun violence taking place in…

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Ensure all of us against the murderers, bad guys. Thank you so very much.

In particular, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, statistics show 90 percent of heroin seized along the border, 88 percent of cocaine, and 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of Fentanyl, in the first 11 months of…

I know that this Administration is working extremely hard not to put children in cages.

I think we have a lot to celebrate, actually, with what we have accomplished in the nutrition space.

I am grateful that President Biden and Speaker Pelosi have finally caught up to where the Agriculture Committee has been in a bipartisan way for years.

As the end of the pandemic nears, I hope we can use today to discuss what worked, what needs improvement.

Last Congress, Chair Nadler and I worked to pass the MORE Act.

Unfortunately, the brunt of it was borne on our communities, and in particular, families already living paycheck to paycheck.

We can prosecute as well as save lives.

I am wearing an orange mask, I believe, because I know that we are working towards a good response of the American people on ending gun violence.