Voting is a fundamental civil right, and it should not be infringed upon no matter what your race or ZIP Code is.
The decision that they make for their communities are often overridden by the interests of those who do not live in the District of Columbia...
Generations of Americans, many of whom are from my hometown of Selma, Alabama, march, fought, bled, and some even died for the equal right o...
There are currently right now in D.C. 712,000 residents of D.C. that do not have full voting representation in Congress.
D.C. residents are American citizens. I think all of us would agree on that.
We cannot allow anti-Semitism or Islamophobic or any form of hate to grow anywhere, but especially here in America.
The brave foot soldiers that day were advocating for the fundamental constitutional right of access to the ballot box and freedom of speech.
So, when I think about the face of welfare or the face of SNAP or the face of CTC, it is a child's face that I see, not some, you know, welf...
I have to tell you I am proud of the fact that during the pandemic--that the House Democrats decided to make fully refundable the Child Tax ...
I represent Alabama's Black Belt, a very proud product of Alabama's rural Black Belt. But our rate of poverty is much higher than the rate i...
I really would hope that this committee would try to find some solutions to deal with the reality of poverty that is in America.