On July 14, House Republicans streamed out of the Capitol as I stood on this floor with my Democratic colleagues calling for action on the public health crises facing our country: gun violence, Zika, and Flint, Michigan's, poisoned water…

I have really focused for much of my public career, both in the Illinois legislature and now here, on improving senior citizens' access to health care.

Guns, gun safety; Zika; Flint, Michigan--just three of the critical issues House Republicans are leaving town without addressing. Despite overwhelming public support, House Republicans have refused to bring any commonsense gun safety…

Let's talk about conscience and whose conscience should prevail in a decision about what a woman does with her body and who makes that decision. Is it the conscience of an insurance company? That is already in the law. Is it the conscience…

Our Nation is grieving. We are tired. We are tired of the violence that too often unsettles our communities. What a week we had last week. We were horrified by the deaths of Lorne Ahrens, Michael Smith, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, and…

So, today, we are continuing this Disrupter Series with healthcare apps.

This law was passed to make health care about people, not about insurance companies.

I think we need to be serious about working together, stop these frivolous lawsuits, and get down to making this law the great law that it could be.

This tells us all we need to know about the Republican Party's priorities.

The comments made yesterday were misleading and they are disrespectful to the American people who are benefiting from the coverage provided through the law.

I think this is simply disingenuous.

I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation to honor the memory of Dajae Coleman from my district, a victim of gun violence who never received a moment of silence on the House floor…