Barbara Lee: “Let me, once again, thank everyone, all of my colleagues, but especially my constituents, who I considered the most…”

“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 alongside you for a better tomorrow. Also, I just want to say I started with a Scripture, and I want to close with one as I leave this august body. This is Proverbs 16:3. It reminds us of this. It says: Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans succeed. Now, this comes from the Bible: Even in retirement, we are called to commit our actions to God. I believe in the separation of church and state. I also believe in those values that those Sisters of Loretto taught me, and that was to go where the need is the greatest, do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God. Thank you again, Mr. Speaker, and thanks to all of my colleagues for being here tonight, and thank you to the House of Representatives, both Democrats and Republicans, for, yes, being part of Team Lee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Ms. Moore of Wisconsin. Okay. Gwen Moore is going to close. Since we have 45 seconds, this is how we do it.”