"I represent the State of Colorado. In Colorado, recreational use of marijuana was legalized in 2014."
"The American people understand that we need to keep firearms out of the wrong hands, and yet it is 20 years later and we at the Federal level have shamefully done nothing about this issue."
"Much of our work here in the Congress is ultimately making sure that the world she inherits is a better one than perhaps the world that we inherited."
"I am very excited about the opportunity to take comprehensive, holistic, and significant action to solve this issue, actions like the Green New Deal, which I support."
"I would respectfully disagree with Dr. Curry, in terms of your framing around the existential nature of this issue. I think climate change is an existential threat."
"At the end of the day, I think this was the defining issue of our time."
"We must invest in our collective future."
"There is no constitutional impediment to passing life-saving gun laws."
"I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019."
"The only thing standing in the way of saving lives is a lack of political will."
"I hope our witnesses today will help dispel the dangerous myth of widespread voter fraud."