The video, The Invisible Children, really captured the people of America, especially the child soldiers and all of the devastation that is happening.

Congress authorized up to $35 million per year in the budget for 2012 and 2013 for increased support to regional counter-LRA efforts.

This will inundate low-lying coastal zones, impacting hundreds of millions of people worldwide and tens of millions of Americans here at home.

I believe we need a council or commission like this on the national and Federal level.

We need to have a national conversation about racial profiling now, not later.

This case has captured international attention and will go down in history as a textbook example of racial profiling.

There is a real tension between black boys and the police, not perceived but real.

Last week, after 45 days, an arrest was finally made in the shooting death of my constituent, Trayvon Martin.

This investigation is laced with racial profiling, lies and murder. Trayvon was haunted, chased, tackled and shot. Ill-conceived laws and lax gun laws all contributed to this tragedy. In closing, Mr. Zimmerman should be arrested…

Mr. Chair, I rise today to voice my opposition to the House Republican budget which ends Medicare guarantees while giving huge tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. As they have done countless times over the past three decades, the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I made a promise to Trayvon. I made a promise to his mother. I promised to stand up for Trayvon. I promised that I would rise every day and let the world know how long it has been since he was murdered…