This makes it difficult for me to seriously believe that as Labor Secretary, you are putting our workers and the vulnerable first.

if you could so heartlessly cast aside your duty to protect the vulnerable in favor of a wealthy sex offender, I am extremely concerned that we can expect a similar pattern of indifference in your role as labor secretary.

We wear red today and every Wednesday to protest sexual abuse against kidnapped girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram, who is affiliated with ISIS.

You claim to respect the rule of law. But as the Miami Herald has reported in detailed accounts, while a U.S. Attorney in my home State of Florida, you made questionable decisions during the prosecution of sex trafficker Jerry Epstein.

You were just part of the team, you have argued, but your actions suggest that you experienced some confusion about exactly which team you were on.

My question to you is about the unsavory way in which this case led the Southern District of Florida to find that you specifically violated the law.

It will disappear, Madam Chair, it will disappear, just like parts of Miami Beach.

You did not want them to know.

Thanks to the relentless courage of Linda Brown, her parents, and civil rights leaders, the abhorrent segregationist policy of 'separate but equal' was recognized for what it was, inherently unequal.

The importance of today's hearing cannot be overstated.

The legacy of Brown v. Board of Education should be to empower parents with the ability to choose the right school for their child.

One of the chief factors in the movement toward resegregation is the increased use of private school vouchers.