Barbara Lee

Coach Beam spent four decades lifting up Oakland and mentoring our young people. Now we must honor his memory by continuing the hard work of ridding our community of gun violence. We owe it to every family shattered by this gun violence…

Gun violence has stolen the life of a man who dedicated himself to building up the young people of this city. We cannot accept this. We cannot let guns continue flooding our streets and destroying the very people trying to save our…

The gun violence crisis playing out in real time.

For over 40 years, he has shaped leaders on and off the field, and our community is shaken alongside his family.

Thank you, Gwen Moore, and I told you: Don't get weary, and you will get there, and you reap what you sow, and you got it. Thank you for being our voice on the Ways and Means Committee. God bless you. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance…

We have an Oakland-Birmingham, Oakland-Selma connection, which is so important because of you, though, Terri.

Well, Congresswoman Sewell, let me just say thank you. I want to make sure everyone knows you represent Selma, Alabama. She represents the heart and soul of the civil rights movement. Terri Sewell has put Selma and its aspirations and its…

I am right next door. Mr. DeSAULNIER. I know. I know you are going to be coming and using that finger every once in a while saying: Come on, man. In our districts, if you come to the bay area, you can still see bumper stickers that say…

I thank my friend so much for those beautiful words. You are the resident poet, we know, but you are able to articulate how the spirit moves in public policy. So, I thank you for showing us where the North Star is so that we can move in…

Thank you, my sister, Rashida Tlaib. Let me thank you for your strength and for again being a voice that has never been represented before on this floor. Also let me thank you for staying strong and not growing weary, Rashida, because you…

No, I have to yield to a couple members, and then I will come back to you if you can stay.

Representative Moore, thank you very much for reminding us of that, and let me just say because of Republicans and Democrats we have saved 25 million lives, and we must have a permanent clean extension of PEPFAR. President Bush and I…

We have forwarded this letter to President Biden asking him to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list with at least 20 Members who have signed that letter.

That is right. It was an embarrassment, and it was a stigma on us. Welfare queens, that is what they tried to call us.

I thank Congresswoman Lee Carter for her leadership and her friendship. I was her mother's personal photographer, and we did travel the world. What Sheila wanted, Sheila got because she was a true warrior woman, as is Mrs. Lee Carter. Mr…

I thank my friend, Congressman Horsford, for that very sincere and very humbling statement and remarks. I thank him, again, for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Mrs. Lee Carter), who has made her mark in…

In 2010 it began to be used widely, primarily by Black Americans to bring awareness to social inequities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBTQ+ rights. Today, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ``woke'' as ``aware of…

I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.

It demonstrates and shows us exactly what he believes in by selecting a JD Vance, who is quite you know, as the campaign said, weird, but also pretty unprepared, very scary in many respects.

But when you look at how he saved lives and livelihoods during the COVID pandemic, and when you look at how hard he has fought to make sure that the cost of living comes down, the cost of groceries, the cost of gasoline, he has to continue…

Well, I hope that we become unified as a party and move forward. We cannot allow Donald Trump to win.

When you look at Donald Trump, who is a pathological liar, when you look at the fact that he wants to dismantle our democracy and establish a dictatorship, when you look at - and I was sitting on the floor of Congress on January 6th, that…

I believe that people really are seeing the real President Joe Biden.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will be postponed. Amendment No. 75 Offered by Mr. Wilson of South Carolina The…