I believe that the United States has benefited greatly from immigration and the immigrants who arrive both economically and culturally.

Those are poverty wages.

We had four Democrats and four Republicans and we spent months putting together a comprehensive immigration reform bill which passed in the floor of the Senate.

Congress should first and foremost regularize the status of those who are in the United States but lack an immigration status.

I do believe there is a will to solve this problem.

Everything's connected, my friends. This is a connected Nation, and a connected economy, and we ought to have a sensible policy.

The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards.

It is an unfortunate reality that hypocrisy has become a guiding principle of the leadership of this body. Three times we raised the debt limit under the previous President. Those three times the American people never once had to worry…

My Republican colleagues are presently fiddling while Rome burns, but I come to praise my Republican colleagues, not to bury them. I come to praise my friend Patrick McHenry for his wisdom just 6 months ago when he said that he opposes…

The obvious solution to this threat to our economy is for the U.S. to join the rest of the world and simply repeal the debt limit. For years, I have been introducing legislation to do just that. House Republicans now insist that they want…

Meet Celly, a constituent of mine living in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. He is an Army veteran and a cancer survivor, and he has received 100 percent disabled veterans benefits due to his trauma as he was serving for us in the…

We stand on the precipice of a self- inflicted crisis precipitated by Speaker McCarthy's loyalty to the most extreme members of his caucus. These far-right members are refusing to negotiate in good faith. They have continuously moved the…

As a co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, I am so proud to hold the floor today with the united House Democratic Caucus. Let's be crystal clear: The only reason we are here right now is because Republicans are…

I thank Congressmen Goldman and Deluzio for the work they are doing in their districts, the work that they do here in Congress, and for their commitment to our country, to our communities before the politics that we are seeing before us…

Solar energy is one form of electricity generation that is growing in the United States, yet we do not have the economy of scale in manufacturing solar systems to meet supply and demand for industry and consumers. Solar energy accounted…

I oppose this legislation that will harm 43 million student loan borrowers who need debt relief so that the Republicans can spend trillions of dollars in just a few weeks on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent. Over 100,000 borrowers in…

I strongly oppose President Biden's proposal to force blue-collar workers in my district to pay off the student loans of borrowers who attended universities who are sitting on billion-dollar endowments. In my district, there are 599,500…

I think, to me, that is kind of like a gamble.