Val Demings

I think congressman-elect Ryan said it best. He said that choice and freedom were on the ballot. And guess what? Choice and freedom, in his words, won last night.

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

CNN projects the Democratic nominee is Congresswoman Val Demings.

Well Lawrence, it`s great to be back with you and look, what Marco Rubio says or he believes depends on which election he is in. He wasted no time, as all of America saw, throwing law enforcement under the bus to suggest that the top law…

I can assure that I am committed to holding all violators of the law accountable.

The level of threat, violent, crazy unbelievable threats have been amplified after 2020.

Every person deserves to be able to cast their vote and have their vote counted.

After seeing several gaps in the Federal Government's response to disasters and how it distributes assistance, I, along with Chairwoman Demings and Senator Elizabeth Warren, introduced the FEMA Equity Act.

I am proud to have partnered with Chairman Thompson on the FEMA Equity Act to address these flaws in our Federal emergency management system.

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

More needs to be done for underserved communities, especially since we keep seeing the pattern of people left without the assistance they need.

We ought to be asking ourselves, okay, what's next? If you think it stops here--well, there has already been an indication that it does not stop here.

Shirley Chisholm said, 'The . . . sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

The only thing that matters is treating them. With all the work that has been done in this country by people who paved the way, the efforts to continue to treat women and girls like property and like second-class citizens...

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?

It is disappointing that here we are today in 2022, with all the challenges that we are facing, still fighting the same old fight for individual rights, but here we are.

To ask the States to decide our most essential freedoms is essentially to make all of us supplicants to the government.

You also pointed out a decade ago we had roughly 108 disasters. Now we are looking at 348 roughly.

My legislation, the Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act of 2022 (H.R. 6825), authorizes the program at $500 million annually through fiscal year 2028.

I am a proud sponsor of Chairman Thompson's legislation, H.R. 7668, the Federal Emergency Management Advancement of Equity Act.

I am pleased, though, to see that the proposed budget request includes $360 million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.

I am a proud cosponsor of Chairman Bennie Thompson's legislation, H.R. 7668, the Federal Emergency Management Advancement of Equity Act.

I commend Administrator Criswell and the Biden administration for taking steps to protect those who are most vulnerable.

I want to thank Administrator Deanne Criswell for your testimony.