Val Demings: “This past weekend 10 Americans lost their lives in Buffalo, New York, to a domestic terrorist radicalized by ideologies…”

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

But we`ve got to come together, as I said, at the local and state level. We`ve got to join the federal partners, and deal with this issue, particularly in the state of Florida.

We are here to discuss communities that are most at-risk during disasters and struggle to recover properly from their effects.

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…