Why were the projections about what would be needed in future years so wrong or were they not wrong?

I would say in the nicest way possible that we don't agree, but we have been around that block before.

You can't possibly expect us to give you that much money in this small part of the budget.

You can't catch up for 30 years in 5 years.

So, to suggest that we can just whitewash the Federal law on Fair Housing and essentially blanch it from acknowledging that we need to make sure that we are taking care not to allow discrimination based on race and racially concentrated…

Hate-filled, anti-Semitic acts will not be tolerated, and I will not stand by idly as predators of these senseless attacks seek to sow fear across our country.

I serve proudly as the first Jewish woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Congress.

The Jewish and African American communities have walked in lockstep for generations.

We need everyone to speak out firmly and forcefully against anti-Semitism and the conspiracy theories that often are associated with it.

It would be hard to feel more strongly about the absolute necessity that Israel remain a Jewish and democratic state.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today, we remember the 6 million Jews and millions of others who were systematically murdered in the darkest chapter of human history. Last week, I had the privilege of traveling with a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in full, enthusiastic support for this legislation which is long overdue. For decades, chemical corporations like 3M and DuPont knowingly manufactured products containing forever-toxic chemicals…

the power is in your hands to hold census accountable

When you have a president of the United States who, even today, continues to malign the Native American community...

Native Americans would be a population that is usually undercounted.

If there is an undercount, because of the way redistricting works, you have decisions made about where in a state or in a community a new district would be added.

Recently, the Census Bureau announced a paid media campaign that includes targeted hard-to-reach hard-to-count communities so that we can increase messaging around the census.

Throughout this process, I listened, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, to career diplomats testify in depositions and found myself contemplating the gravity of this decision. One of my daughters asked then how I…

I thank Chairwoman Lowey for yielding. I rise in support of this funding package which includes Military Construction-Veterans Affairs funding, which I am privileged to chair, and seven other appropriations bills. This package increases…

The legislation also includes my language to require on-demand admission to Members of Congress into DHS facilities so that we can conduct oversight without the administration whitewashing the reality inside before we arrive. That…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this minibus package that by no means is perfect and that represents, for sure, a tough compromise. But it makes strong investments to protect our Nation and upholds…

hundreds of trafficking cases last year, she says, and south Florida is one of the worst epicenters for this heinous crime.

We must make sure that women, parents have the benefit of the benefit that I had, that I could choose to have, regardless of their income, regardless of their employer.

So, the market is responding, but that's because we had the courage enough to pass a law that most people said would drive business out of California, when California is now the economic engine, and always has been, of the country.

I agree, we should be looking at the impact on low-income individuals, because that's who we all would like to help here.