My thanks, again, to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden) and the others who have spoken on behalf of this, including Congressman Ruppersberger, who has been, as he indicated, a part of this effort for a while. And that while goes all…

I would inquire how much time remains on my side. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Mfume) has 10\1/2\ minutes.

I thank the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Pallone of New Jersey. I appreciate his oversight of this bill and the way his committee has moved us to where we are today. Mr. Pallone and I go way back. When I left this body…

I thank Mr. Trone, and I appreciate the opportunity to be able to join this Special Order on behalf of the late Senator Paul Sarbanes. Mr. Speaker, I want to just thank John Sarbanes, our distinguished colleague from Maryland, for being…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for convening us to commemorate this 155th anniversary of the ratification of our 13th Amendment. It is difficult sometimes for many of us to look back at history because it was so painful, but it…

We cannot simply decimate essential Federal agencies and then expect them to miraculously meet their missions in times of crisis.

We need to be asking what the IRS could have done to help our country if it had been properly funded and adequately staffed instead of being subjected to years of bitter Republican abuses.

They need this money now, not in 11 months, but now.

I was unavoidably detained earlier. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 217. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Beatty (Lawrence) Blunt Rochester (Raskin) Butterfield (Kildee) Chu…

But to use the word 'collapse' after you have raised the drug price 27 times... is a little bit misleading.

I am particularly thankful that you are holding this hearing.

If you read any of the social contract theorists, John Locke or Thomas Hobbes or Rousseau, all of them said that we enter into society because we'll be safer inside the social contract than outside of it.

the infiltration of White supremacist members, activists, ideas, and attitudes is a threat to public security and public safety and is a threat to the reputation of the law enforcement function.

And the Fed must use its tremendous resources and market power not just to bail out wealthy stockholders but also to protect low income workers and struggling small businesses that are the backbones of this country's economy.

This legislation, this bill, this movement, and this purpose that we are debating today really found its genesis long ago with a Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, when, on May 17, 1954, nine men robed…

The Census cannot become a hostage once again to a political fight perpetrated by this administration and their allies in Congress.

It is time to get it right.

The Bureau knows this is not enough time. We all know it is not enough time.

What concerns me is that if we don't seriously address it that we could see this pandemic actually exacerbate this inequality in our Nation.

These are real, real stories. And when the mail slows down, it has a disparate impact on communities, and particularly on communities of color around this country.

I also funded the post office because it deserves to be funded. It's a national treasure. It's a national service.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I heard someone on the other side said something that disturbed me, so it has actually taken me off my remarks because it can't go unaddressed. For the gentleman to say that Democrats, the majority…

I appreciate the gentleman's kind and overly gracious remarks. I appreciate also his sense of history and for what I think today is being displayed as a bipartisan effort to draw attention to and to reconcile a very real problem. So I will…

As we have been hearing and continue to hear, the passing of John Lewis represents a loss for America of one of our greatest heroes and, for many of us, a dear and old friend. John and I were sworn in together in this Chamber 33 years ago…

33 years ago, I stood near this spot and watched Thurgood Marshall come through these doors as a member of the Supreme Court at a State of the Union address. And as a Marylander and as a Baltimorean, I had a great sense of pride. I got to…