Those issues obviously relate to the relationship between law enforcement and the African-American community.

I thank Mr. Butterfield for his really exemplary leadership here. Mr. Speaker, it is a proud day for Maryland as we move to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney with the bust of Thurgood Marshall. One Marylander wrote the infamous Dred…

Let us not forget who we are. Our Framers rebelled against centuries of religious oppression, Inquisition, Holy Crusades, witchcraft trials, and state religion. They conceived America as a haven of refuge for people fleeing from religious…

I thank Ms. Clark for organizing this beautiful observance and testimony to our beloved colleague. I want to praise John Lewis, not the Congressman, but John Lewis the member of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a…

I also think we should not be party to confusion and disinformation about masks.

What a fraud this is. What disinformation. What a pathetic and transparent effort to distract America from what's really going on.

Don't you think it's better to take the public health problem seriously so we can really reopen the economy?

I would not agree with the proposition that using remote voting or proxy voting in the context of a national public health crisis reduces deliberation.

We need to focus on getting the pandemic under control to advance public health in order for the economy to come back.

Madam Chair, thank you very much. And thanks for calling this extremely important meeting at a time when the country is in an intensifying crisis with the coronavirus.

What kind of message does it send to Americans on the front lines, like nurses and doctors and first responders who go to work, if there are Members of the House who can't make it and they vote from home?

I want to salute our colleagues Mr. Langevin and Mr. Gallagher for an extremely compelling presentation.

In 2016, we experienced a sweeping and systematic cyber-attack on our election by Vladimir Putin's Internet Research Agency.

We got hit in 2014 with the massive cyber breach at OPM by China, and that caused massive damage to our country.

Let's come back to America where our people are suffering.

I urge all of my colleagues to reject this weak and unconstitutional motion to recommit. The motion proposes to condition the admission of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth on either the imposition of the whimsical policy preferences of…

When in the course of human events a relationship stops working and one party experiences a long train of abuses and indignities at the hands of the other, you scrap the old relationship and you start anew. It is nothing personal, but I…

I claim the time in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

So every State has faced objections. They said Utah was too Mormon, and New Mexico was too Catholic. Hawaii and Alaska, in 1959, of course, they weren't contiguous; they couldn't be admitted. Yes, the District exists now under Article I…

Fact: More than 2.4 million cases of infection among our people.

American apartheid lasted until the modern civil rights movement, when the blood sacrifice of John Lewis and Medgar Evers, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, and Dr. King gave us the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. In ``Leaves of Grass,'' Walt Whitman wrote that ``the United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.'' So each of our States is like a stanza, a line in the remarkable and always unfinished…

If Congress can redraw the boundaries of the Federal District to protect the property rights of a few hundred slave masters in the 19th century, surely we can redraw the boundaries of the Federal District to protect the democratic rights…

The whole premise of civil government is that we will be safer inside the social contract than outside of it, the state of nature which Thomas Hobbes famously described as a state of war, ``solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'' So…

All of the first responders are saying: Save us from this nightmare, wear your mask.