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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, 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).

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in remembrance of Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman killed in the Massachusetts Seventh District, for whom Transgender Day of Remembrance was established in 1999. I rise today because, 20 years later, many…

Mr. Speaker, 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…