Political Quotes

I rise today in defiance of President Trump's threats to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He wasted $1 million every day to house the National Guard in D.C., and now he wants to further misuse taxpayer dollars instead of investing in…

I ran for office because I was sick and tired of watching Congress do nothing as children were killed by gun violence.

This feels to me, and I imagine many others, and to many Americans, as a huge blind spot in the law.

Gun violence does not need to occur inside a school to harm our children. The stress from living in a community impacted by gun violence has been proven to lower test scores and increase mental health conditions like anxiety and PTSD. Just…