it's equally important to center the lived experiences and agency of our Kurdish allies.

That is not what your hiring choices indicate, and Maya Angelou told us a long time ago that when people reveal to you who they are, believe them.

You are attempting to use technology to solve what is inherently an issue of wealth.

It's clear we must act today. We must act in this moment.

There's an old adage in my home community that says: When everyone else catches a cold, Black folks catch pneumonia.

this administration's blatant disregard for the humanity and dignity of the world's most vulnerable is on full display.

There is underbanking because people are broke.

A key component of the Defeat ISIS campaign was to help provide local communities with stabilization assistance to enable displaced persons to safely and voluntarily return to their homes.

In tumultuous times like these, the critical role of congressional oversight cannot be overstated.

I think that, right now, what is happening is a lack of a foreign policy process, a lack of a national security process.

These issues aren't a coincidence. They are outcomes borne out of decades of racial, economic, and social injustice.

I thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands and the gentleman from Nevada and our chair, Karen Bass, for organizing this Special Order. What an honor and a privilege to spend my early months as a freshman Member of Congress in close…