I include in the Record an article from The Wall Street Journal dated from 2018, ``California Public Employees Vote Against Pension-Fund Activism.'' [From the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 18, 2018] California Public Employees Vote Against…

I continue to support this amendment, and I am happy to accept it. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I include in the Record the following letters, a June 14 letter from the National Association of Manufacturers, a June 15 letter from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a June 16 letter from the American Securities Association, all in…

I thank our wonderful colleague, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, for this amazing, incredible effort, and for me to be here, and to actually witness this is an honor. The passage of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is long overdue…

I express strong opposition to that on behalf of mothers and women all across my district.

If you want to look at the economy, how the cost to the economy is when we do nothing, and, really, the human cost, to me, is something that we can't look away...

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I introduced the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act II, or OPRA II, for three reasons: one, to ensure that the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant's waiver process is fair and efficient…

I would love to share with our colleagues some of the fraudulent activity of opportunity zones by billionaires.

Act now and save millions of lives or wait, have it cost 10, 20 times more.

What does it truly mean to be forgotten when it comes to policy and when it comes to when you look at budgets that are coming out of Washington, DC, and it leaves communities like ours behind?

I really, truly want to talk about the human cost.

Nothing is more apparent than that during COVID.

It is great to stand here with Representative Bowman, with our colleague Jan Schakowsky, with Mr. Kahele, with all of our brothers and sisters in Congress to say that we can and we must, and we will do so much better right now for our…

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your testimony today which was very well-written and put together and your answers to today's questions have been tremendous.

I agree as we sit here today, I think we have a crisis on the border.

Every time we invest in these false solutions, it is an opportunity cost to our future, to equity, to climate justice.

Now we have a Democratic President who is having to dig us out of a different kind of crisis, which is the health pandemic.

I was in the House of Representatives in 1997 when we balanced the budget for the first time in 30 years under a Democratic President, Bill Clinton.