Jackie Speier: “I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to compliment her on a profound, articulate, and accurate statement of what…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to compliment her on a profound, articulate, and accurate statement of what is wrong with what is going on in this country and what is going on wrong in this body. As one of the co-chairs of the Democratic Women's Caucus, I stand here as the author of the letter, along with my colleagues, calling on Mr. Yoho to apologize, demanding an apology from him to Ms. Ocasio- Cortez. He didn't give an apology yesterday, as Ms. Ocasio-Cortez indicated. We really are at a watershed moment in this body. We have mourned the loss of two great leaders of this body. John Lewis, we sat on this floor last night for hours on both sides of the aisle talking about his greatness. And what did he call us? He called us a family. A family does not talk to each other as Mr. Yoho had talked to Ms. Ocasio- Cortez. We mourn the loss of Congressman Elijah Cummings, who said, ``We are better than this.'' We are better than this. We are the most diverse Congress ever in the history of this country. Twenty-four percent of us are women; 8 percent of us are women of color. Now, where does this all come from? It comes from the top. It comes from the White House, who calls women ``crazy Nancy'' or ``such a nasty woman'' or ``a low-IQ person'' of a colleague of ours who serves as the chair of a committee, a ``crazed, crying lowlife.'' Our colleague, Mr.…”