A parent is a child's first teacher. My mother did not read me nursery rhymes, but she made sure early on that I knew the words of Toussaint Louverture, 'I was born a slave, but Nature gave me the soul of a free man.'

What is happening in Haiti is of specific and urgent import to the people that I represent, dealing with the fact that they cannot travel back to the funerals of their loved ones due to the violence; the fact that students cannot go to…

When Johnson & Johnson asks people to trust them, the FDA should have said, show us.

Current policy is simply out of touch with the fact that, at some point, virtually every person, every working person--because hardship does not discriminate--will need to take time away from a job to fulfill caregiving responsibilities.

I find it insulting to this committee and to the men and women across this country whose trust in Johnson & Johnson has destroyed their lives.

We still want answers. And that's exactly why Representative Schakowsky of Illinois and I earlier submitted a letter.

I want to say I associate myself with the impassioned Detroit tell-it-like-it-is comments of Representative Tlaib a moment ago, and completely dissociate myself with the comments offered by my colleague across the aisle.

I think this is the very exact vehicle and forum where this sort of oversight is supposed to take place.

It is simply appalling that the United States continues to be one of only two industrialized nations in the world without any form of paid family leave.

I thank Representative Tlaib for her leadership on this and so many social justice issues. I really appreciate her organizing this Special Order hour, and I hope that, in some ways, it assures the American people that we have not lost…

It is critical that we hold both Big Tobacco and Big Vaping accountable for targeting young people...

47,000 black people die every year from smoking-related illness, making this the largest cause of preventable death among black Americans.