Thank you so much, Congressman Davis. I know that you have a response to what I am going to say because I am sure you share the same feeling. I talked about discrimination earlier, and there is one aspect of discrimination that is probably…

I come to the floor now because of a serious concern, a deadly concern even, that the people of my district, the First Congressional District of Illinois, the citizens of the great city of Chicago, and indeed those from around our country…

I want to thank my friend, Congressman Davis. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say that in the central business district of Chicago, or The Loop as it is known far and wide, there is a close- in circle around The Loop. They have created three…

This rule would allow EPA to use its existing authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants.

The science, Mr. Chairman, is settled. Climate change is real, and it is negatively impacting the lives and livelihoods of the American people.

I want to commend Ms. McCabe, I want to commend the EPA, I want to commend all your colleagues for the way you have approached this proposal.

This is the worst time for media ownership by minorities.

I am dismally disappointed. I have been disappointed over a number of years because I don't see the vigorous commitment from the FCC.

As a matter of fact, if I am not mistaken, in the last 3 or 4 years, the percentage of media ownership by minorities has dropped almost 60 percent.

I have taken the position over these past couple of decades that one of the reasons why I sit on this committee is to increase the number of minority owners of media across the country.

I am absolutely, totally disappointed in the FCC and their position on minority ownership of marketplace.

There are only four African-Americans who own television stations in the Nation, in this great Nation of ours.

I come to the floor today to address the statement made just yesterday by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. As we all know, Mr. Speaker, Commissioner Silver dealt swiftly, decisively, and broadly with the reprehensible racist tirade that has…

I want to thank the gentleman from New York who not only has yielded me some time to speak on this issue, but I just want to observe that he has been one of the most remarkable persons to ever serve in this House, this exalted House of…

there is an economic price that we are paying and will continue to pay for the problems of climate change.

Anyone who doubted that EPA is trying to 'bankrupt the coal industry' as President Obama promised should have been convinced by proposed New Source Performance Standards for new electric utility generating units.

I applaud the steps that the Obama administration under your leadership is already taking to reduce our Nation's global footprint.

Nobody on the planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

I am excited to see movement on this important issue. I am, however, discouraged by the discussion draft presented.

This bill discontinues use of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's standard of 'vulnerable populations' in favor of a newly created standard of 'potentially exposed subpopulation.'

The title of this bill is the Energy Consumers Relief Act, but yet the majority prevented me from offering an amendment that simply stated that the EPA rules could not be blocked if they resulted in consumers saving money at the gas pump…

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise today in strong opposition to this horrendous bill, H.R. 1582. Although this bill is called the Energy Consumers Relief Act, a more appropriate title would be the Shamelessly…

Not only did they turn their backs, but the Illinois EPA, the State EPA, refused to even investigate this matter. I had to get the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. EPA to end this atrocity. If this bill is ever enacted, it will bar the…

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, here we go again with the Republicans spewing their shamelessly empty rhetoric concerning jobs. Jobs for the American people might be on their minds, jobs for the American people…

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this timely and important hearing on the overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard.