Political Quotes

I thank Mr. McGovern for this Special Order and for giving me a minute to speak, but also for his tremendous leadership because this is such an important issue that I think sometimes gets swept under the rug. There are a couple of things I…

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…

I strongly support Oakland’s ban on coal and will continue to fight against any attempts to bring coal shipments through our city.

I thank Representative and Ranking Member Bobby Scott, the former chair. I thank him for his leadership. I feel that our children's future is secure with him here. Again, as he spoke, I have to go back to Galatians 6:9, where I opened…