This is an extraordinary and surpassingly important hearing and I hope it will be an historic one.

So, of course, they are calling universal health coverage socialism.

Our colleagues across the aisle just don't want to deal with any of these realities.

The American people want to know what sets him above the law.

You know, my hero Tom Paine said: The cause of America is the cause of mankind.

Today democracy is under siege all over the world, and just as we are working to defend and fortify democracy abroad in Ukraine and other places, we are working to defend and fortify democracy here at home.

presence is to be presumed and favored in all circumstances, except when a person has a compelling medical reason.

The ones who threaten don't bomb and the ones who bomb don't threaten.

Do you find that these threats come at occasions of public prominence like Black History Month?

I have taken some careful notes on these witnesses and the prior panels.

I appreciate the opportunity to share with the committee my constituents' concerns about noise pollution from concentrated flight paths over our district.

The violent threats against the HBCUs are part of a trend, of rising hate crimes against African Americans.

The perpetrators behind these acts obviously are targeting Black colleges and universities, seeking to disrupt and terrorize the students, the faculty, the staff, and all of their families.

The President and members of his campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.

This is a crisis that is hiding in plain sight, and I hope the hearing will help us to shine a light on the shocking plague of missing and murdered women and girls in communities of color across the country.

In 2020, 100,000 of the quarter million women and girls who went missing in the U.S. were black, brown, or indigenous.

Black women and girls make up just 13 percent of the female population in the country but accounted for fully 35 percent of all missing women in 2020.

We all need to redouble our efforts both to galvanize national attention to the problem and then to make these legislative changes.

The causes driving the disproportionate rates of missing women of color are many and complex.

If democracy means anything, it is that the lives of all the people, in a moral sense, have to be treated equally by the government.

The differential investment of law enforcement and police resources in the Native-American communities... is a matter of basic injustice and justice.

The social contract is not working if we are losing hundreds of thousands of women and girls every year.

It is so often treated as kind of a marginal thing. It is like a detail, and this is why we have organized political society.

We can design it the way we think we need to design it, in order both to vindicate the interest of staff.

Will one of our Republican colleagues--one of them-- denounce Donald Trump or dissociate themselves from his remarks praising Vladimir Putin and calling him a genius?