This is not a new phenomenon. For the last 150, 160 years, Black colleges and universities have continued to face an inordinate amount of threats against their operation.

I want to say to the students, who I hope are still with us, that you gave excellent testimoneys and should be proud of the way you represented your respective colleges and universities.

I want to thank Chairman Scott for yielding, and for also working so closely with Representative Adams to get us to this point. Mr. Speaker, I don't know how we got here, except that I know that we can't, as a Nation, stay at this point…

For them who are the extensions of a race of people who have suffered, endured, and survived two centuries of slavery, oppression, deprivation, degradation, denial, and disprivilege, none of them should have to matriculate in this country…

It is absolutely critical that this legislation gets passed, and I appreciate your leadership and your sponsorship in that regard.

I can't for the life of me understand why situations of missing women and missing children are not more reported in all of that time block than they are now.

This whole notion of black, brown, multiracial, indigenous girls, women, and children is an issue that I think that the American public does not understand the full scope, width, and breadth of.

We thought, many of us when we were shocked in 1979 with the Atlanta child murders that nothing like this could happen in our country.

The fact that it is still unauthorized or not reauthorized for this year pains me, and I think it pains a lot of other people.

I want to thank the distinguished gentleman for yielding a little bit of time here at the conclusion of this discussion. I want to thank particularly the gentlewoman from Wisconsin for coming up with this bill on the House side and…

More than anything else, the bottom line here is that this is Russian aggression. It is man-made Russian aggression.

I am really happy to join with Congresswoman Kaptur, who has served for some time now as chair of the Ukrainian Caucus, who has driven us and gotten us to this point, but who has also kept together a bipartisan group of legislators. So, to…

I thank Ms. Kaptur for her overly gracious remarks. I appreciate them. I also appreciate the opportunity to join her and the others in our discussion about Ukraine. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro…

I hereby remove my name as a cosponsor of H.R. 5344. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's request is accepted. ____________________

I think there is kind of a storm brewing out there on the vaccination.

I commend and thank the Chair, Bobby Scott, for his leadership in this area.

I would be remiss if I didn't also acknowledge Representative Adams for her stewardship of HBCU issues and education issues in general over so many years.

I would respectfully disagree with the gentleman in his opposition. There are a couple of things that I think are important to be pointed out. As the vice chair of the Small Business Committee of the House, I continue to hear the stories…

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add the following new section: SEC. 8__. MODIFICATIONS TO…

I look forward to the gentleman, not only being on the committee, but agreeing and certainly offering the invitation to work together. My hope is that this passes; and, if it does, then I would extend to him the opportunity to do that, and…

Well, thank you very much. I have heard a lot of locations, but I have never heard west of weird, so----

We hope that all of you will continue to do what you do, because you really do represent in many respects the real backbone of businesses.

I urge you to consider some additional relief targeted to especially hard-hit industries like ours which depend on in-person events.

Values get to be subjective after a while.