The Ending PUSHOUT Act, which I introduced, would invest in the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

Under the failed leadership of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the OCR has abdicated this critically important responsibility.

Elevated rates of PTSD among our LGBTQ children--trauma linked to bullying, familial and religious rejection, higher rates of homelessness.

This administration continues to abandon our LGBTQ+ neighbors by removing protections and barricading justice for the most vulnerable while funneling taxpayer dollars into discriminatory organizations.

In 2018 in Georgia, seven polling locations were suddenly closed by Republican lawmakers before the midterm election.

I serve in this august institution and this committee with colleagues across the aisle who deny science and the climate crisis.

We reject false choices that purport that access to the polls must be bartered between vulnerable and disenfranchised folks.

Millions of individuals across the Nation have been arbitrarily and permanently stripped of their right to vote due to involvement in the criminal injustice system.

I just urge my colleagues to pick their heads up and to defend access to the ballot for everyone.

Mr. Speaker, the great poet and pioneer of righteous rage, Audre Lorde, once said: ``I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.'' The year is now 2020, and here we women are, still in so…

We want prosperity to be widely shared. We need policies to make that happen.