We learned that the structure and the implementation of PPP continues, as has been said, to disadvantaged, smaller businesses, specifically businesses of color.

People are concerned, Secretary Mnuchin and Madam Administrator, that what they see does not gel with what they have been led to believe.

We needed transparency. We requested that you immediately begin publishing the demographic data on PPP recipients.

there is no reason in God's world that there should be that kind of a disparity so obvious in a state and a district, in particular, that diverse.

There is, from where I sit, a great deal of skepticism in many circles across the Nation from people who see the awarding of PPP funds and the rollout of this project as being discriminatory

I want to thank you for your relentless efforts at trying to bring about fairness and equity to this issue

It is disheartening for me to look back over that period of time and to recognize that many of the same arguments advocating on behalf of Black and Brown and Korean businesses for fairness and equity are still being made.

I want to thank the distinguished Delegate, the congressperson from Washington, D.C., for her steadfast leadership on this. I had the opportunity to work with her predecessor back in the late 1980s in this Chamber, Delegate Walter…

To my friends on the other side of the aisle, every now and then in our Nation's history we find ourselves at a singular, searing, and seminal moment, a moment such as this. And so, whether it was the great debates of the 1960s and the…

I thank the distinguished gentleman from New York, the chair of our Caucus, for yielding. I listened intently to the litany that the minority leader chose to deliver, and I watched and looked through a lens of history about his admonitions…

We have had a lot of talk on this floor about this bill and people pointing fingers and saying: It doesn't do this. What it does do, though, is to provide real support for American heroes: our cops, our teachers, our firemen, our first…

I thank the majority leader for his kind and overly gracious remarks. Madam Speaker, I rise to offer my heartfelt thanks and my deepest appreciation to the people of Maryland's Seventh Congressional District for the high honor and the…

If the president's new mantle and measurement for dialogue is to only talk and to only meet with those individuals or organizations that agree with him, then we are getting closer to the previous regime in Baghdad than we are to a…

for those Members that are still in their offices and others who are watching, this is in fact probably the last time that I will come into the well of the House of Representatives to address this Chamber and to address the people of the…

I know that words are inadequate on my part to tell you how much you mean to me as a person, and why I will miss this institution, not because of the partisan bantering that takes place, but because of the genuine kind of dialog and…

First, Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentleman for his words regarding the time that he and I have shared and many of the things that I have worked on here in the Congress and to say to you, Don, how much I appreciate the way you have also…

I know the time of the gentleman is short, but I do first of all want to thank my colleague from Maryland. We were elected together in 1986, kind of cut our teeth here in this House together and grew to be dear, dear friends. Connie, I…

But if every time there is an appeal of the Chair, a motion is laid on the table and defeated because of the numerical advantage the majority has, it denies not just this side but the entire House an opportunity to vote on the ruling of…

I said earlier that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey came to town today and put on a great performance of elephants and clowns outside of this building, but it does not come close to the high wire act that is being performed here by…

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey came to town today with an elaborate show of elephants and clowns on the Capitol Grounds. But that does not come close to the high wire act being performed today on the floor of the House by daredevils…

I rise in opposition to the H.R. 925, the Private Property Protection Act. The Private Property Protection Act comes under the guise of protecting private property rights, while in reality it pits the property rights of some against the…

Could the gentleman again talk about the phenomenal success that the program experienced in Maryland? Actually it is phenomenal wherever it occurred. It began in that State.

Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer this amendment to H.R. 728, an amendment that would continue the Drug Court Program as enacted by the Violent Crime and Prevention Act of 1994. The Drug Court Program included in the list of programs targeted…

due to a scheduling conflict in association with the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I was forced to miss the vote that was taken today, Tuesday, January 17, 1995. Had I been here, I would have voted ``aye'' to…

I rise in support of H.R. 4277, which makes the Social Security Administration an independent agency. The Social Security Administration is responsible for administering the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program and Disability Insurance…