"If that is not despicable racism that will continue to be tolerated by some Members of our Caucus, I don't know what it is."
"I am speaking from two different perspectives. One, not only as a legislator in my official capacity but No. 2, in 2005 I lost my home and everything that I owned to a fire."
"We passed an amendment last year that would allow for a family to apply for a $10,000 grant to help them improve and get ready for an emergency."
"I know, is a strong advocate for universal healthcare."
"Putting more firearms in the wrong hands would make the world a more dangerous place."
"How is the information and the images of toddlers behind jail cells and having nothing but a sheet of aluminum to cover themselves, pooping themselves, nobody feeding them, how are those images being ..."
"I want to bring the conversation back to our hemisphere and Latin America."
"I agree the Federal Government has to have minimum standards."
"We have to have a basic recipe that our States should follow."
"I prefer incentive-based, but I would also like to see what do those minimum standards look like."
"Thank you. My time is up so I yield back."
"Congress has taken this issue very serious as of lately because we have had some issues, and Congress has an Ethics Committee that is made up of Members of Congress."