I want to thank you all for joining us this morning for this important hearing entitled 'Building a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Building Sector.'

You can't lead where you don't go.

opening statement

This hearing is part of a series that we will be holding in this subcommittee and in other subcommittees to highlight areas where we can achieve significant emissions reductions in order to achieve a 100 percent clean energy economy by…

Tackling this issue are making our homes, our schools, and our business more energy efficient, will save money, put people back to work, and expand the American middle class.

Mr. Speaker, let me begin by saying I certainly and clearly disassociate myself from the remarks of the previous speaker. I absolutely, wholeheartedly disagree with him and do not concur with him. Mr. Speaker, in 1999, my son Huey became a…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the scourge of mass shootings currently plaguing my community and other communities around the Nation. The Gun Violence Archive, Mr. Speaker, which is a not-for-profit corporation that tracks and…

I happen to disagree with that. I happen to think that when you set goals, when you set bold and aggressive action and milestones, it does force people to come up with innovation quicker.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to address how racially discriminatory housing policy has contributed to the unjust racial wealth gap in our Nation. Currently, Madam Speaker, 72 percent of White households own their own homes, while just 41…

I want to thank you, Madam Chair, and I certainly want to applaud you for holding this critically important hearing.

Mr. Speaker, I, again, associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from Michigan, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rush) that…