Our work to end the smoking epidemic is not just simply a matter of public health. This is, and always has been, an issue of racial justice.

This is important, because if we are banning flavors we must ban all flavors, which includes mint and menthol.

Working families shouldn't have to wait 3 to 5 days for a check to clear.

We must clamp down on the production of menthol products and not the individual possession of it, because there are real intergenerational, traumatic consequences of broken windows policing.

Menthol e-cigarettes are not an offramp for adult menthol smokers. They are an onramp to hooking a new generation of smokers.

To not do so would be discriminatory, since menthol, in particular, has imposed a unique and deadly burden on the black community.

I thank the gentleman for those words and for telling us more about those we were prematurely robbed of all that they had to contribute to this world. It is important that we continue to bring their names into this well, into this august…

Before I begin, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of the Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

I thank the gentleman for those powerful words. Like the gentleman, I agree that we cannot say those names enough. Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from the great State of Missouri (Mr. Cleaver).

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and for always fighting for those too often ignored, left out, and left behind. We are grateful for her. Now, just as I close, as we wrap this Special Order hour, Transgender Day of Remembrance is…

Many of our Republican colleagues, they opposed teen pregnancy prevention programs. They oppose comprehensive sex education.

I still call it a war on women's health because when you look at the comprehensive nature of these cuts and the policies and the restrictions, what else is it?