I find it appalling, disgraceful, and dangerous that Steve Bannon, a white supremacist and the architect of the ban, is on the National Security Council.

I thank Congressman Veasey for the work that he does in representing Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege and an honor to be the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in that we represent almost 80 million Americans, 17…

I thank Congresswoman Plaskett. Mr. Speaker, the CBC has led the charge in proposing solutions for the underserved and disadvantaged communities throughout this country. In his first remarks as President, Donald Trump claimed to champion…

The Senate's duty to provide advice and consent to Presidential nominees is a fundamental component of American democracy.

It is an honor and a privilege to have this opportunity to stand on the House floor and to anchor the Congressional Black Caucus' Special Order hour, where today we want to discuss some of the issues and challenges confronting this country…

To have a living legend like John Lewis handled in such a fashion is beyond the pale.

In my community and communities of color and with elected officials, there seems to be two standards: one for low-level elected officials and then one for other people.

I have no other speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, my bill, H.R. 5391, would help verify that DHS carefully prioritizes research and development projects to actually close identified vulnerability gaps in the…

it is very convenient for a White male from Virginia to talk about collusion in a consent decree.

So in summary, the old policy and the new policy, it is your opinion both were consistent with Federal law?

if you are going to start cleaning up, start cleaning up at home.

that has absolutely nothing to do with New Orleans.

They are complying with a Federal consent decree, and now it will cause the City of New Orleans to lose valuable Federal money in terms of DHS and FEMA funds.

And Ms. Gupta, at what point is it your office's opinion that they did not comply with Federal law?

Let me just quickly put the quote that--the great quote that I made in context.

Let me just start with, people make the assertion all the time that more guns are the answer--guns in schools, guns in churches, guns in movie theatres.

There are a bunch of people, including me, that think that the justice system is rigged for those who are privileged and those who are rich.

the longer we procrastinate in moving a supplemental appropriation for this Community Development Block Grant program, for example, the more people, unfortunately, who are going to make decisions that it just isn't worth their while to…

it makes no sense to me that we would spend $60,000 to $80,000 to bring in a trailer.

The relief that our citizens want and the relief that they need and the relief that they deserve is tied up in red tape.

this is not about property, this is about lives.

My frustration is that we just won't--we're assuming that people are trying to scam the system.

The three problems or areas I see that are the most frustrating: One is speed, the speed in which things are getting done; two, people having decisionmaking authority being in the places they need to be; and, three, deference to our local…

We have to give FEMA the benefit of the doubt that the decisions they make during a storm are right and proper.

Our Louisiana delegation should unanimously request from the President a supplemental.