Val Demings: “For a Nation who always goes where the need is greatest, but we see the data.”

One and one-half years. The SPEAKER. When we have recalcitrant Members these days, I try to remind them that unless the legislative body is a team sport, then you cannot come here to be an individual and build a brand. That is not what…

I want to take a minute to congratulate my friend, the gentlemen from New Jersey, Mr. Payne on his legislation, the Homeland Security for Children Act.

we`re not going to be where we need to be until we acknowledge climate change and take it extremely seriously.

Well, it's going to take a while for people to rebuild, to be made whole. You know, I chair the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery, just getting back from Puerto Rico, assessing the damage there from Hurricane…