I want to thank you, like the others, for your commitment to ending homelessness.

I have had a career in helping our most at risk student's graduate from high school and we have found that the most significant risk factors for students dropping out is poverty.

This includes legislation aimed at: Increasing voter outreach and turnout; Ensuring both early and same-day registration; Standardizing physical and language accessibility at polling places; Expanding early voting periods; Decreasing voter…

The voting rights struggles of the 20th Century are now joined by voting rights threats posed by the 21st Century.

I was an original cosponsor of H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act.

the Paycheck Fairness Act is a critical piece of the range of things that we need to do to reduce those poverty rates

we certainly know that Russia is--looms large as having intentions to interfere with our elections.

the independent right of every American to cast their vote, unimpeded, unsuppressed, and unoppressed.

We can do it if we just put our will and our resources toward it and if we think in very innovative ways.

The opposite of wealth is poverty and the opposite of poverty is justice.

I have been persistent in my efforts to protect the rights of disenfranchised communities in my district of inner-city Houston and across the Nation.

I consider myself to be an entrepreneur and very much about elevating small business people.

Our legal system is dependent on having lawyers who will help individuals.

I want to continue with my theme of leveling the playing field.

Mr. Speaker, for the eighth consecutive year, the Juniata Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America, achieved the Gold Journey to Excellence Award. It was an honor to celebrate this outstanding achievement yesterday with the council as well as…

I certainly believe teachers deserve to be paid very well.

Great teachers have a profound effect on our society.

I think actually, the Democrats being in control gave the president actually more leverage.