banning the box is crucial, because research shows that removing barriers from employment is essential to providing a real second chance for individuals.

Senator Booker cited some information from the American Bar Association, which stated that there were 45,000 collateral consequences to having a criminal conviction.

We should be working here at the Federal level to look at states--with the states--to see what support do they need from us.

you have my support, both of you, in terms of creating what is needed in the budget fight

Congress does not always acknowledge the contribution of the territories to our nation.

The recovery of our islands will hinge on the level of support from Congress to rebuild and maintain infrastructure.

Budgets are moral documents. They are statements about what we want our future to look like, and where we are going to spend our resources.

this is a really important subcommittee, for me, being the representative from the Virgin Islands.

The Agriculture Census is very important to inform Congress on the state of America's rural communities.

I think that at the very least there should be a referral to the Ethics Committee of witness intimidation or tampering under U.S.C. 1512 of my colleague Matt Gaetz, and it may be possibly him being referred for a criminal prosecution.

Thank God the Democratic majority can walk and chew gum at the same time.

The President's emergency declaration is, in fact, a power grab to go outside the bounds of the law and get what he failed to achieve in constitutional legislative process. After failing to convince the American people and Congress to pay…

We believe that there needs to be a permanent statutory fix that addresses the unfair and disparate treatment all Territories face in their Medicaid programs along the lines of H.R. 1354, 'The Territories Health Equity Act,' introduced on…

we cannot afford another Trump shutdown as the Virgin Islands continues rebuilding its economy and a better, more resilient infrastructure.

The 35-day Trump shutdown had a significant, real-world impact on the Virgin Island Port Authority's readiness, ability to receive passengers efficiently and safely, and capacity to meet FAA's consent decree requirements.

I also rise to share a shutdown story from my district in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Vanessa Thomas, a resident of St. Thomas, shared a heartfelt story with me on her personal experience with the government shutdown. In 2017, less than 2…

I thank the gentlewoman from New York--her and her staff, as well as the members of the committee--for putting together this supplemental disaster appropriations, H.R. 268, which seems to address many of the issues that the territories and…

It is frustrating at the most basic level, but more personally, I find it very disrespectful that a member of this committee, in particular, a member who has gone through what we have gone through in the Virgin Islands, cannot get TSA to…