The Federal resources are critical to helping our communities recover, and it can't get there fast enough.

I urge you to light a fire under someone. This is wrong what y'all are doing to disaster victims.

the President showed that apparently he is not very serious.

It is the intent of this committee, so that we all know, to move forward on both of those fronts.

Considering we spent $1.7 trillion in the last $220 billion-plus disasters in this country, we can't afford to continue not making the right investments.

Regardless of one's position on climate change, it is impossible to ignore the data.

These women did not view migration as a solution.

We are not going to accept that deal.

Helping communities build in mitigation upfront and streamlining the recovery process and reducing the bureaucracy is going to save lives and it is going to reduce costs.

This is just stupid, and it is unacceptable.

My amendment incorporates this legislation into today’s Central America engagement bill.

Humanitarian crises put women and girls at a much higher risk of violence and exploitation.

Today I am also urging my colleagues to support H.R. 2140, the Preventing Child Marriage in Displaced Populations Act.

Going door to door in my first campaign, a sweet, elderly lady invited me in for iced tea. As she discussed my race, she shared that she had never missed a chance to vote since she was a young girl. One day, her mother had hitched the…

Central America is sadly ranked high among regions of the world for femicide.

I hope this is given full consideration as FEMA moves forward with the recovery efforts.

It makes little sense for us to simply rebuild the same way over and over again.

If the President wants to hold good-paying jobs hostage, that is his choice.