Lateefah Simon: “If the Senator is expecting me to defend the Contract With America, I am not about to do that.”

I rise today to honor a son of Oakland, California, my constituent, Ryan Coogler, whose film ``Sinners'' has earned 16 Academy Award nominations, the most of any film in Oscar history. Ryan Coogler was born in Oakland, California, raised…

I rise today to oppose the administration's cuts to critical gun violence prevention programs, and I rise today in deep solidarity with the innovators of CeaseFire, violence interrupters, and community organizations around this country…

They’re cheating Americans out of a functioning budget…willing to cut cancer research…school classrooms with 60 kindergarteners.

It is without apology that when you write legislation that cuts into the flesh of the working poor, you cannot call it policy. When you cut into the flesh of working-class Americans, you don't call it policy. You call it what it is…