Diana DeGette: “I will ask unanimous consent to put the full statement in the record and also all the other statements of the other…”

I want to congratulate Melat Kiros for her victory last night, and I want to wish her all the best in her future.

This is shameful! People have suffered enough from these violent ICE agents. This rogue agency must be abolished, not given more ways to hurt our neighbors and terrorize our communities.

The government should never have the right to use health insurance coverage as a targeted weapon, should never deliberately strip certain people of the freedom to make their own medical decisions.

If I could pass Medicare-for-All unilaterally in the minority, I would do it, because I’m an original co-sponsor of that bill. But the frustration people are feeling is with the whole system.