Today I rise in support of the Water Resources Development Act of 2022. I am grateful for Chairs DeFazio and Napolitano and Ranking Members Graves and Rouzer as well as the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff for working with…

One estimate is that 53 percent of veterans do not know what career they want to pursue when they transition back to becoming civilians.

For the American service men and women, the transition to civilian life can be difficult, especially so if they struggle to find a purpose upon return.

In the fall of 1912, Forsyth County, in my district was the site of an appalling racial cleansing. Following the death of a White woman named Mae Crow, three Black men, Rob Edwards, Ernest Knox, and Oscar Daniel, were accused of her murder…

We need to restructure for the long haul as opposed to just give short shots of funding.

My bill would encourage partnerships and collaboration between the Federal Government, industry, labor organizations, and State and local governments.

It is clear from today's testimony that more work needs to be done to ensure that, in the long term, we have a supply chain that is resilient, and can be flexible to global incidents.

Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the Jim Crow-era tactics of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, to more recent tactics of voter-roll purges, exact-match policies, and partisan gerrymandering.

Georgia was one of the first States in the country to pass a voter suppression bill after the 2020 general election, but S.B. 202 is just our State's latest attempt to disenfranchise minority communities. Georgia has a long history of…

Georgia was one of the first States in the country to pass a voter suppression bill after the 2020 general election, but S.B. 202 is just our State's latest attempt to disenfranchise minority communities. Georgia has a long history of…

Like so many of us in this Chamber, I spend a lot of time on the road driving from event to event. As someone who represents the metro Atlanta area, I have spent far more hours than I care to admit sitting on I-85 in bumper-to-bumper…

I thank Chairwoman Maloney for yielding. Across our country, the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community has felt deeply under attack. Over the past year, xenophobic political leaders used dangerous rhetoric to stir up hatred against…

As we continue to grapple with the issues of race and justice in our country, I rise today to share a story of tragedy and progress from my own district. More than a century ago, Charlie Hale, a young African-American male in…

it is my hope that this program will enable more immigrant-owned businesses to get the information and resources that they need to help them recover and prosper in the years to come.

Will you commit to work with the affected stakeholders to limit the scope and impact of this credit policy as much as possible and ensure fair outcomes for our small business contractors?

I thank Chairwoman Velazquez, Ranking Member Luetkemeyer, and Representative Kim for joining me in introducing the bipartisan Paycheck Protection Program Extension Act. In 2 weeks, the Paycheck Protection Program, also known as PPP…

I thank Chairwoman Lofgren for yielding. After an election with record-breaking turnout in November, the Georgia General Assembly has recently introduced a number of partisan bills to restrict voter registration and make it more difficult…

This week, as February becomes March, Black History Month comes to an end. But I want to be clear, every month is Black History Month because Black history is American history. Today, I am thinking of the amazing Black women and men who…

More than doubling the current Federal minimum wage over the next 5 years, we are asking small businesses to really bear the entire burden.

I firmly believe that we do need to raise the minimum wage in this country to get it to a living wage.

The current Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and at $7.25 an hour it amounts to just around $15,000 per year.

This bill with the $25 billion allocated for restaurants through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund ensures that restaurants can sustain jobs that can be there waiting for them after we defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minority-owned businesses and small mom and pop shops have been hit extremely hard by the economic effects of the pandemic, and this is why the bill provides critical assistance to businesses with 10 employees or less.

A lot of the Black, other minority owned businesses were having to pay back the loans, whereas some of our White businesses seemed to be more likely to be able to find ways to get the loans forgiven.