If you are on food stamps and you are able bodied, we need you to go to work.

My biggest concern with President Trump, and I want to help him where I can, is that he's never really looked the camera in the eye and said even though it was the Democratic Party that suffered, from Russian interference, I am now the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to continue honoring HBCUs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, for their significant contributions to our Nation's history. While only 3 percent of our Nation's higher education institutions are Historically…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today, as part of the observation of Black History Month, to continue my series of remarks recognizing HBCUs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities. I am asking my colleagues to join me in celebrating Clinton…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for his time and his leadership on this issue. I come to the floor today as the co-chair of the largest bipartisan caucus in the United States Congress: the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. On behalf of…

There is no doubt that most of us consider the 50 States the laboratories of our democracy, where good things happen.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, Congressman Veasey, from the great State of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as part of the observation of Black History Month to continue my series of remarks recognizing HBCUs, Historically Black Colleges…

Under Barack Obama we have made tremendous progress from where we were.

Mr. Speaker, standing before almost entirely White crowds in North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, and Ohio, candidate Donald Trump painted a bleak picture of African-American life in 2016, full of crime, high poverty, and failing schools…

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 794, which will reauthorize the Election Assistance Commission until 2022, provide payments to the States to upgrade the security of voter registration databases, and require an assessment of each…

The fact of the matter is--and these are not alternative facts--that when Barack Obama became President of the United States of America, we were losing.

We wanted to make sure that we didn't put the American people, the workers--whether you are Democrat, whether you are Republican, whether you are independent, whether you are Black, whether you are White, whether you are Hispanic--we…

One of them was called Dodd-Frank. And as a result of Dodd-Frank, we saw some stabilization in institutions and we began to move forward.

Mr. Speaker, HBCUs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, have been the topic of a great deal of discussions recently, and I rise, as part of the observance of Black History Month, to recognize and celebrate one of them, Allen…

The interactions are becoming extremely important.

I put that on Washington, D.C.

Thank you for convening this hearing today.

It seems to me that the way you deal with poverty is you have to do what you can to make sure people have opportunity on the one hand, and then on the other hand you have to do what you can to make sure they take advantage of that…