We have tried to have discussions with CSX and others who are around and responsible in many respects for the mounds of coal. Those discussions have gone nowhere at all.

I want to speak on behalf of those people. Because our job, at the end of the day, is to preserve and protect the environment and to protect the people who cannot get away from the environment they are in.

When the bridge collapsed, the mounds of coal continued to increase.

In Baltimore, we have the second-highest rate of asthma in the whole country.

I believe, Mr. Chair, such is the case in this instance, and passing H.R. 6826 would be both a fitting tribute...

The fact of the matter is you want regulation because you want to go back to the White replacement theory.

One thing is for sure. We are not going back to the way it was, not ever, ever again.

Title VII is what it is, what it is, what it is, and as we heard earlier, its birth came out of the Civil Rights Act.

We want everyone of all races to be able to make it to maturity and make their own decisions and live their own lives.

Thank you, Chairman Gosar, and to Ranking Member Neguse in his absence for hosting this legislative hearing...

I want to commend Ms. Wiley, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

The fact of the matter is that 82 percent of business leaders consider diversity initiatives to be essential to their business strategy.

Both you and I try to find a common path, and where we disagree or diverge, we recognize that we retain that right.

We can do better than this.

I thank Chair Roger Williams and Ranking Member Nydia Velazquez for their cooperation in getting this piece of legislation to the floor. This amendment represents, in many respects, the sort of amendments that are bipartisan that have come…

Thank you. Mr. Chairman, is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into, no decorum?

For a year and a half, the Republican Majority on this Committee has sought to weaponize genuine scientific questions over COVID-19.

Dr. Fauci, we owe you an apology for the way we have raked you through the mud.

You've been a hero to many for 54 years, five-plus decades.

Thank you for your service, sir.

Many of us believe, Mr. Shriver, that Congress should focus more on legislative action that supports efforts to recruit and retain top talent and focus less on chasing away high-quality employees into the private sector.

I also applaud OPM's finalization of the upholding civil service protections and merit systems principal rules, which implement protections that, as we know, would make it difficult for future administrations to reapply what is known as…

Several of my colleagues and I fought together to give this policy the sort of treatment that it deserves and to give the Federal workforce reassurance that they will never have their employment in jeopardy because of political…

It has really troubled me to watch the vilification of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins over the last couple of years.

Today, I rise to announce my introduction of the Baltimore BRIDGE Relief Act. I thank the entire Maryland delegation for their united and unanimous cosponsorship of this bill. As most know, on March 26, early in the morning, our Nation…