We cannot, will not let people go hungry. We cannot let people be evicted because of nothing they did themselves.

I would not be in the United States Congress were it not for public housing, which gave me something that all of us need -- a safe, decent, affordable home.

I need you to come to the White House to talk to you about election fraud.

We should harness the power of this moment to rewrite the social contract with public housing residents and give them the safeties in affordable housing that they deserve, which is long overdue.

The worst slumlord in the country is the federal government, which has savagely starved public housing of the funding it desperately needs.

We need to extend the child tax credit which would cut child poverty by 40 percent in the span of one year.

My highest priority is to put my constituents back to work. In the South Bronx the unemployment rate is 25 percent, which is comparable to the joblessness of the Great Depression. We`ve seen a catastrophic loss of income.

The dangerous mob that Donald Trump unleashed on the United States Capitol represents a violent assault on the separation of powers and on the peaceful transfer of power that we have long taken for granted. The impeachment of Donald Trump is not politics but law, not passion but reason, not vengeance but justice. And we as the people’s representatives must rise to the challenge of defending democracy in the face of its gravest threat. And we will.

the president egged the crowd on and pointed them at the capitol and told them to go.

It serves as a reminder of the need to investigate everyone in the prior administration who aided and abetted Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the result of the election. And as far as I’m concerned, Jeffrey Clark should be disbarred. And if he committed a crime which I believe he did, he should be prosecuted.

We actually had a bipartisan agreement on a major piece of immigration reform with DACA, the dreamers and with the temporary workers that were here.

While the vaccines provide so much hope, the rollout has been a dismal failure thus far.

Senator Schumer has made it clear he’s going to make sure the Senate does all of its business. That’s its constitutional obligations under impeachment, constitutional obligations to consent and national obligation to respond to the COVID crisis.

COVID relief and the pandemic package we have to get through to get the vaccines are distributed, expanding production -- has to go hand in hand with economic relief for the American people.

Mayor Buttigieg has impressive credentials which demonstrate his intellect and commitment to serving our nation.

With regard to getting people vaccinated, the Trump administration had the vaccine for 40 days and got about 11 million people vaccinated.

President Biden is not going to allow Iran to acquire nuclear capabilities, but we’re going to be consulting widely before we move forward on that.