Alcee Hastings

Continued investment in restoration and resiliency projects is needed to ensure South Florida's ecosystem will be healthy and prosperous for future generations.

I appreciate your efforts to stop the administration's attempt to redirect USACE funds toward a wasteful and ineffective border wall.

This ain't about process. This is about the President abusing his power.

Can anybody in here, particularly those of us on the Rules Committee, name any other President in the history of the United States that has asked a foreign government or its leaders to investigate an American citizen for political purposes?

Let me urge President Trump to look around the world if he wants to talk about corruption...

And that ignores the fact that the aid was withheld and a hot war was ongoing?

Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to Russia... that the United States supported Ukraine and was ready to defend it against Russian aggression?

How many of my friends here on this dais think it is okay for an American President to solicit foreign interference in our elections?

Trump withheld his taxpayer money to help our ally fight a hot war against Russia so he, President Trump, could obtain a personal political benefit.

We find ourselves here today discussing two Articles of Impeachment against President Donald John Trump because of his disregard of and disrespect for the United States Constitution.

How dare somebody say that they aren't going to pretend that they are fair.

You will lose. This will cost you the majority next year, and some of you aren't going to be here in the next Congress. I hope you have had your fun.

The life expectancy of a person that is trafficked is 7 years.

Our inaction on resiliency planning and preparation, our inaction on investing in building stronger communities today, costs taxpayers and all of us money.

What I don't think we fully understand is this: What is the human cost of these storms, and how does that cost impact the Federal budget?

As is clear, I and Bill Johnson are from south Florida, and I know that hurricanes ruin lives, displace people from their homes, their jobs, and their communities.

The Helsinki Commission is taking action to address these assaults on the rule of law.

The TRAP Act is aimed in part at addressing the plight of individuals such as Russian asylum seeker Alexey Kharis.

Chairman Alcee Hastings and I are preparing to introduce bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate to tackle the abuse of INTERPOL by autocrats.

The voters spoke, and the legislature spoke against the voters. And you tell them I said so.

If it had not been for Section 5, G.K. Butterfield and Marcia Fudge and I would not be sitting here in the United States Congress.

This is a rejection of the democratic will of the people of this State.

It is clear that the mail system, the vote-by-mail system needs some additional guardrails.

We should be about the business of instructing people how important voting is to their lives and to all of ours.