"I have been working across Congresses, now with Members on both sides of the aisle, to reform the National Flood Insurance Program."
"In recent years, the United States has experienced more frequent and intense natural disasters attributable to climate change, displacing tens of thousands of people and costing hundreds of billions o..."
"It`s not going to be that easy to get this bill passed out of the United States Senate."
"And so today is very special. Something very special has happened. But when I talk about why it is so important for us to have diversity and inclusion, it is because of Keith Ellison, who is the distr..."
"We’ve got to stay on the street. We’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business."
"I want to tell you my struggle against police abuse started many years ago."
"You would think that we would have even Republicans on the most conservative side who would say, this is too much, even though I support the police, and I think that they shouldn`t even be challenged ..."
"And so, when they take words like confrontation, which certainly confrontation was used in the sit-ins, in the -- for the civil rights legislation, the marches, the prayers. All of that is confrontati..."
"I will continue to speak truth to power. And I will continue to be an activist legislator."
"We must all see that we have a role in helping to bring about justice in this country."
"We have to make sure that they are not a part of our police departments, and they don`t keep getting rehired over and over again in various jurisdictions after they commit crimes in another district."