We do have the capacity to help to abolish poverty so that kids can get an equal opportunity for the future.

But those days of when we do not recognize the strengths of those who come from different places, different lands, different experiences, and our need to embrace them is critical in terms of our children and moving forward in education.

It also says that poverty is unacceptable. And poverty is, in some of our districts and some of our communities, is the biggest roadblock to youngsters being able to get a good education.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of National Charter School Week. This week, we honor the hope that charter schools deliver to millions of students nationwide, and we are reminded that education is about students, not politics…

For decades, publicly funded research has laid the foundation for the treatments and cures patients use today.

I introduced H.R. 1730, the Speeding Therapy Access Today, or the STAT Act, with my Rare Disease Caucus cochair and good friend, G.K. Butterfield.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding tonight for a very short but very serious and solemn set of comments. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to two members of the Watauga County Sheriff's Office who lost their lives in the…

I agree with my colleague, Mr. Fulcher, who said reauthorizing to the old way of doing things is not responsible legislating.

Madam President, this week is National Police Week, and I rise today in honor of the service and sacrifice of law enforcement across this country. In North Carolina, we lost 10 law enforcement officers in 2020, and we tragically lost 6, so…

I am glad we are holding another hearing to update us on the status of COVID-19 response.

I think it is safe to say that the 21st Century is something that the CDC has not totally entered.

These are tough questions with even tougher answers.

Black mamas are disproportionately and needlessly dying.

If a State as liberal as California can recognize that a one-size-fits-all mandate on gig workers would be destructive, it should be obvious that the Biden Administration should not take those same actions.

At our first GameStop hearing, I asked Democrats to side with everyday American investors.

I have a bill, the MOMMA's Act and in that bill I talked about Medicaid coverage for a year and I wanted it to be--to have to be for every state.

The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality is worse than it was 25 years ago.

At NC State, which gets a fair amount of NSF funding, international students make up 35 percent of their graduate student population.