Rep. Corrine Brown

this year as we observe Black History Month we should reflect on the all-out attack that has occurred on civil rights, voting rights, and affirmative action programs. We need to renew our commitment to progress on these political fronts…

this was a bad House bill, a bad Senate bill and the conference report did not fix it. It is still bad. You can judge a great society by how it treats its children, its senior citizens. This bill guts our future. I urge my colleagues to…

I am outraged that Members, some from my State of Florida, have erroneously criticized the award of COPS funds to park police in general and specifically to the Florida Marine Patrol. I am disappointed that a Member of this House would…

freedom if religion and freedom of speech are the two most precious rights in our American society. Implicit in our freedom to worship the God of our choice is the freedom to worship without fear. It is a very sad day when the right to…

I rise in support of the Valazquez amendment, which sets a minimum rent of up to $25, and allows for a waiver to be granted in cases of extreme hardship. In Florida, a $50 minimum rent will affect 2.100 households. This would mean an…

we are here today to honor Congressman Sam Gibbons on the occasion of his retirement at the end of this year. Even before Sam was elected to Congress in 1962, he already had a long and distinguished career. Serving 17 terms in Congress was…

I want to thank the entire leadership of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for being so diligent in bringing the issue of investment in our Nation's infrastructure to the attention of the American people. You should be…

This 104th Congress has hit a new low. The NRA, I mean the GOP leadership, showed me the old saying is true, he who has the gold makes the rule. Law enforcement officers from my district have told me how critical it is to keep the assault…

Chairman Shuster, Congressman Oberstar, Congressman Duncan, Congressman Lipinski, and I want to commend and congratulate you for working together in a bipartisan fashion to bring a good bill to the House floor. H.R. 2276, the FAA…

in the grand tradition of Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, and Dorothy Height, former Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan carried our Nation's baton for freedom, justice, and equality as one of the first female African-American…

if we don't pass a debt limit extension and the country defaults on the national debt, the result will be devastating. The Republicans don't believe Treasury Secretary Rubin when he warned of default. Instead, they have resorted to a…

Now, if we want to talk about $245 billion in a tax break for the wealthiest Americans, provide them with that, and at the same time we want to cut $270 billion in Medicare, we want to cut $163 billion in Medicaid, we want to cut education…

Well, I have heard three times today that you can fool some of the people some of the time. The American people need to let the Republicans know that they are not being fooled by this talk about balancing the budget while we do reverse…

It is really a shell game and politics at its worst in this body. The linking of the shutdown of the Government to the balanced budget, as I said, is the worst of politics because we cannot continue the budget negotiations or talk about…

The main reason is that they felt that the person from the Third Congressional District voted with the Black Caucus, not voted for the people of the Third Congressional District. I had 13 town meetings during the break. I saw over 3,000…

We stand on very tall shoulders. If we think about people that have died to give us the opportunity to stand here on this floor and have this conversation, then I am committed that we will never go back to an institution of all white men…

Well, the organizer of the Third Congressional District, who, by the way, does not live in the Third Congressional District, you know, but wants to dictate what happens in the third, I beat him close to 70 percent in the last election…

But women won the right to vote by the slimmest of margins. In the House of Representatives, suffrage passed by exactly the number of votes needed, with one supporter carried in from the hospital and the other leaving his wife's deathbed…

I want to say before I begin, in this Congress it has been pretty hot for me in these last 6 months and it has not been a lot of fun, but one of the joys has been serving with the gentlewoman from Georgia [Ms. McKinney] in the 103d and the…

Mine is 50-50. Ms. McKINNEY. Yours is 50 percent black, that is unconstitutional. Does that mean any percent black is unconstitutional?

You know one of the things that I find outstanding by every black Congressperson that I know is that we vote for people issues, and it does not have anything to do with color. When I vote for lunch programs, I want all of the children to…

I am very proud of the service that my office rendered to the people of the Third congressional district. I have gone into little counties and the next day the headlines in the paper reads the first time in anybody's memory they had even…

I represent a little county of roughly about 2,000 folks or so. It is Glascock County. It is the peacock capital of Georgia. I went there for a visit. It was the first time that that county had ever been visited by a Member of Congress…

Losing by large numbers. Ms. McKINNEY. They lose, then they cannot stand the agony of defeat, particularly to a woman.

the people of the Third Congressional District have had opportunities to decide who they want to represent them, and we are not talking about some of these Members of Congress that just did win. This Member won close to 60 percent.