That this is the fifth year, Mr. President, this has got to be passed is an outrage; this is a bill that nobody objects to. I think anybody would think it is common sense. But it just gets crowded off the agenda. I do not intend to let it get crowded off. I cannot believe we will fail this year once again to pass a measure which can do so much to reduce hardship and suffering and needless heartbreak throughout America.
Addressing the urgency of passing a bill that has been delayed for five years.
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When the president says he's for something, it doesn't mean it is going to happen. It just means we now know what he feels and how he thinks about it.
I don't think so. I think this -- and African-American communities like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting.
Full equality, it means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys.
I don't think so. I think this -- in African-American communities, like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting, people are thinking differently.
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