That just means that it is more important that Congress acts.

I want people to imagine that they are driving home from work and then they see in the rear view mirror, you know, red and blue lights.

Why are we even talking about sending money to schools that have been sued repeatedly by state attorneys general for fraud, that have shown repeatedly that they leave students with overwhelming debt.

We are not anti-technology and we are not anti-innovation.

It is always that balance between innovation and protecting individual rights and civil liberties.

I think that you are seeing the--both parties and across the ideological spectrum showing some reservations about the use of this technology.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 45, line 24, strike ``and''. Page 45, after line 24, insert the following new subparagraphs: (B) in…

I believe that the American people are well aware that this administration, the Trump administration, has taken steps to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, and now my party, the Democrats, are taking major steps to reverse it. But, as we do…

These are just a few of the hundreds of messages I receive on a weekly basis on Facebook, Twitter, through email. They're hateful, they're racist, and they're meant to marginalize the community that I represent and the communities like…

And the only thing I find more disgusting than this hateful speech is the public figures who endorse it, the silence of the leaders who normalize it, and the cowardice of those who fail to condemn it.

I found this article interesting because it also states: 'From the January 2017 mass murder of 6 Canadian Muslims at a Quebec City mosque to the mass murder of 11 Jewish congregants at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, there was one…

The work that we're doing here, the policies that we're creating, that we're talking about creating, and the statistics that we're talking about tracking, all of the good work that we're doing can be wiped out in a tweet.

The reality is that the statistics that we've talked about that are so poorly collected or poorly tracked, they are not, certainly, going to track the fact that I get a text message every time an occurrence like this happens from a worried…

We know that the facts are on our side, that the hate crimes are on the rise, and more than half of the 4,100 hate crimes are perpetrated by far-right extremists that occurred in 2017.

I want to draw your attention to the TV screen. This is a glimpse of, I believe, what is Trump's America for people who look like me.

We passed a voter registration law, an automatic voter reg law in California.

Requiring the ID laws is just another means of voter suppression, another means to disenfranchise individuals.

Young people are turning out, and that is a good thing because then, all of a sudden, elected officials have to consider more what the young people want from their politicians.

I have seen where polling places just got moved.

democracy is not created equal in the United States of America.

Our actions have been necessary and we are prepared to do more, including making difficult operation decisions that may impact services, but we urgently need legislative regulatory reform.

I wish we can--five minutes is not a lot of time to kind of debate some of these issues, but I've seen it with my own eyes in California.

Yes, we need to protect our national Postal Service, but we must also ensure that any reforms from Congress don't take benefits away from postal workers.

mail delivery is something that Americans have been able to count on for decades and generations, right? And it is the one thing that I think in government we should hold almost sacred.

climate change policies, I believe, do--anything we do has to prioritize the working class, the underserved, the underpaid, the struggling, those struggling against racial inequality, and those with preexisting conditions.