I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

I think we have a problem of an unfortunate circularity between wealth and political influence.

the world has really witnessed for the last 12 years the horrors carried out by the Assad regime against the Syrian people

So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

Unfortunately, there are some people who have been using the deaths of right whales to push a political agenda by falsely claiming that offshore wind development has some link to right whale deaths when the evidence clearly shows no such…

This corrupted Tax Code lets billionaires pay an average tax rate of just 8.2 percent, less than half the rate of a typical teacher or firefighter.

The Air Carrier Access Amendments Act... will help make air travel more accessible for individuals with disabilities.

keeping Americans safe is one of the most, if not the most, important responsibilities that we have in government.

In light of the testimony just heard, what is the mechanism for the Committee to transfer this hearing to Ohio, where the crime rate is significantly greater than here in New York?

There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State.

Compare that to Mr. Jordan's Ohio, where the homicide rate is 73 percent higher than in Manhattan.

If my Republican colleagues were serious about violent crime and sincere in their efforts to law enforcement, they would have joined us in that effort.

Unlike our Republican colleagues, Democrats have consistently advanced policies to make all our communities, including New York, safer places to live, to work, to worship, and to go to school.

Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs that have pushed crime and…

We must pass universal background checks. We must implement red flag laws to keep guns away from those who are a danger to themselves and others, and we must reinstate the assault weapons ban.

Our goal should be to prevent crime.