Barbara Lee: “Under her leadership, the Office of enterprise Development won the 1997 North Star Award for excellence and leadership…”

Let me, once again, thank everyone, all of my colleagues, but especially my constituents, who I considered the most enlightened, most diverse and most progressive, yes, congressional district, for giving me the faith and trust to fight…

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…

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

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