
We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened who did it, and people need to be held accountable for it and I'm committed to make sure that it happens.
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We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened who did it, and people need to be held accountable for it and I'm committed to make sure that it happens.

The first option that some people have talked about is a censure resolution against the president. Both Republicans and Democrats are drafting these. And one can be introduced or co-sponsored.

I made a phone call to the president, telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. And I was very intense and very loud about it.

Mr. Speaker, a big thank you to Representatives DeFazio, Napolitano, Graves, Rouzer, and their incredible staff who put together the Water Resources Development Act of 2022. There is always talk about congressional dysfunction, and that is…

the position, H.R. 8, all H.R. 8, at its core, said is that violent felons are still getting these guns, serial rapists are still getting these guns.

As she put it, what do we value more, children or our guns? It is really that simple.

the right of the Second Amendment is not absolute, it is important to recognize that the right of the First Amendment is not absolute.

To understand, Lawrence, that America was not attacked. America is under attack.

This was led by Donald Trump. That he conceived it. He aimed a mob violently at the Capitol in the attempt to take away every American`s vote.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Water Resources and Development Act. WRDA authorizes projects designed to improve the Nation's water resources infrastructure, including ports and harbors, inland waterway navigation, and flood…

I absolutely agree with the comments you made about [Free File]. It hasn't worked. We need to develop a new system.

the fact is that energy production in this country was higher in the first Biden year than in the last Trump year and will be the highest ever in recorded history next year in 2023.

I absolutely agree with the comments you made about [Free File]. It hasn't worked. We need to develop a new system.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor Anaheim High School's Jillian Albayati, the young athlete making history for women in men's high school baseball. Jillian became the first girl to pitch in a CIF-Southern Section men's baseball final…

I think the technology being discussed here represents a great potential to simultaneously eliminate economic loss while addressing harmful emissions.

I cannot believe that my colleagues don't recognize that prohibiting the sale of an assault weapon until the age of 21 isn't going to save lives.

All I am asking my colleagues to do is open your hearts and listen, and I hope we still have enough humanity in this body to do this.

The idea of turning our schools into prisons, into places where they are not conducive to teaching and learning, that is not the solution to this problem.