Political Quotes

“I want to extend my condolences to my good friend and to the Speaker for her recent loss. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a powerful and transformative bill that will ultimately help save lives. In the wake of the tragic deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Michael Marshall, and so many others, it is critical and it is our duty to act. As a multicultural and multiracial movement sweeps our Nation and as communities across the country plead for change, it lands on each of us to act. This bill will ban chokeholds. It will bring transparency by standing up the first ever national database of civilian police encounters, and it will provide additional tools to the Department of Justice and State attorneys general for pattern or practice investigations. We must enact these reforms. We must stand up on the side of justice and equality. We must act. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill.”