Val Demings: “I want to thank you for TSA's rapid response to the Orlando International Airport's request for additional resources and…”

I am afraid the generations behind us do not have any longer a full recognition of what it is that we are so blessed by. When I bring groups to the floor... I will often stop and say: One of the first things I noticed when I walked into…

How can we sit here today--are we serious?--and say, regardless of the physical, emotional, and psychological trauma, the women and girls who survive these vicious attacks, that does not matter?

We are here to solve problems.

We are fighting, as my friend and former colleague John Lewis said, for the very soul of our nation.