We must get to the bottom of racial antagonisms and as well as religious antagonisms.

Fear cannot be an option in this Nation. Healing must be.

I would say to you, Mr. Biggs, many of my friends are in your faith...

Some in this Congress believe January 6th was a tourist event, others do not.

We need to prevent targeted violence against all these communities.

We will be in touch and want this to be immediate and not later, because for Congress to act, we must have these kinds of serious briefings.

We are ready for that bill.

I want to restate, just for a few minutes, this hearing's topic was a rise in violence against minority institutions...

The efforts right now that we're seeing to discourage teachers and schools from talking about our honest history are contributing to this narrative that White supremacy is not the problem, and it is.

The crisis of attacks on institutions out of racist attitudes and anti-religious attitudes and anti-Semitic attitudes should not be diminished.

The Nation should not stand ideally by when there is racism, anti-Semitism, bias against LGBTQ, gender bias, anti-Muslim, and anti-Sikh.

Last year, I was proud to join Congressman Brad Schneider in introducing H.R. 350, the Domestic Terror Prevention Act of 2021.

Domestic terrorism invades our safe spaces and makes us feel like strangers in our own country.

We now have to overcome that with healing and coming together and, yes, legislation like H.R. 40.

The balance of domestic extremism that we're seeing right now really is being led by the focus on White supremacy.

It is particularly concerning with some of our Republican colleagues continuing to embrace falsehoods and conspiracy theories to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and other such colleagues encouraging far-right extremists…

The data we have shows, that incidents of domestic terrorism and extremism and hate-based violence are all on the rise.

Most worrying to me is the lack of an acceptable centralized and dedicated plan for the January 6 events and the absence of a process for developing similar plans for future events.