Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states.

Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed statehood and recognized the constitutional problem.

We've just heard from several of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about how Democrats win elections in the District of Columbia by 90 percent or 92 percent or what have you, as if we should all understand that the implication…

Why do you think we're getting all of these arguments that are doing everything that they can to run away from the consent of the governed?

Anti-Asian American violence is skyrocketing. We have seen a 150 percent surge in anti-Asian American hate crimes.

There's no free speech defense to commission of violent assaults on Asian Americans or anybody else.

You've got to blame the COVID-19 virus on the Chinese government or the Chicoms.

Trump's lethal, recklessness, and incompetence in the COVID-19 crisis manifested in his promises that it would magically disappear by Easter or by summer vacation.

We couldn't even get a single Republican vote for the $1.9 trillion American recovery plan that is going to finally crush the disease and spread science and vaccination across the country.

Why did President Trump do nothing to stop the attack for at least two hours after the attack began?

Why did President Trump not tell his supporters to stop the attack on the capitol as soon as he learned of it?

You talk about cancel culture? You invented cancel culture, and you continue to stand by while they try to cancel out the voices of anybody in the Republican Party who disagrees with Donald Trump.

I will withdraw the snowflake comment and keep that to myself if you don't want to hear that today.

You talk to me about cancel culture? You invented cancel culture.

Some of my colleagues are invoking the Second Amendment quite promiscuously today, but they obviously haven't read any of the relevant Supreme Court authority because Justice Scalia, in District of Columbia v. Heller, explicitly upheld…

Americans are 25 more times more likely to die from gun violence than people who live in other developed countries, and on that point our perpetually outraged and indignant colleagues have absolutely nothing to say. We lose 38,000 people a…

I think that it almost indisputably began on January 6, with the first violent insurrection and mob attack against Congress in the history of the United States, incited by President Trump in an effort to overthrow the results of the 2020…

I thank the chairman very much for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is reasonable, commonsense gun safety legislation contemplated by Justice Scalia, by the Supreme Court, under the Second Amendment of the Constitution. It is what America needs…

The amendment proposes to knock out the heart of the Honest Ads Act, so the public won't know who is purchasing ads online. That is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. We need far greater transparency about who is polluting the…

I think that the COVID-19 crisis, I hope if it has taught us nothing else, it is that an invisible and silent threat can shut down the country and can traumatize and kill lots of our people.

Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the United States.

Impeachment is not nearly so much about the past as it is about the future.

In 2015, the GAO recommended that the Federal Government come up with a plan to provide information to state, local, county decisionmakers, as well as private sector decisionmakers, to educate people about the dangers of climate change and…

Nobody has a constitutional right to be there.

America has incurred $1.24 trillion in economic damages since 2005 through various climate disasters and calamities.