Brian Jones: “On rollcall No. 270 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________”

The Second Amendment applies to every American, even those living in California. Unfortunately, California Democrats find that fact inconvenient, so they ignore it in their efforts to erode and ultimately eliminate Californians’ lawful…

Today, I cast one of the proudest votes I will ever cast in this body. I was a ``yea'' on the Respect for Marriage Act. When I was elected to this body, I became one of the first two openly gay Black Members ever to serve in Congress…

I swear, sometimes I stand in this Chamber and feel like I am in the Twilight Zone, listening to a number of my Republican colleagues espouse white supremacist ideology to denigrate our wonderful Dreamers. I am over here standing with a…

I rise because we find ourselves on a path that we have traveled before, a path that the American people were promised they would never have to meet again after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, and now after Uvalde. For two…