Kweisi Mfume

It is a dangerous road to say if their values are not our values then we have every right to bar them.

Values get to be subjective after a while.

If their values are not our values then we have a right to do this.

The federal government shouldn't tell local governments what to do.

I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. I am sure it is well intentioned, but I think this is the wrong vehicle for it.

The executive order directs that the various agencies within the government develop a plan to promote equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good morning, everyone.

I was not recorded on H.R. 391, the vote that occurred a little while ago. Had I been recorded, my vote would have been in the affirmative. ____________________

It is, indeed, important, and the fact that it is the second one does not belie the fact that we have a situation that we have not faced in 100 years.

I served with Ronald Reagan. I served with the first George Bush. George W., the second one, and I became friends, working together, oftentimes at odds on issues, but none of them--none of them--have done in my opinion to the Republican…

In 2016, such a cunning tyrant rose among us, and his name is Donald Trump.

It was an insurrection, and it was fueled by the President.

I would hope that other members of the House and of the Senate see that and act on it as well.

I think the biggest issue, and I think what we have really heard here today is really related to Federal Highway Administration and that guidance because that does flow down to, as you heard, the state agencies.

I think I might be, Madam Chair, one of the only three or four Members of Congress that voted in 1993 in favor of statehood and voted last year the same way.

I would offer up in support of your reservation the fact that this amendment, while it may be well-intentioned is very, very far-reaching in terms of what it does.

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.

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

I am particularly thankful that you are holding this hearing.

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

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.

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