Brenda Lawrence: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this hearing and examining the effectiveness of the Department…”

My colleague on the other side used a term that I hear frequently when we start talking about gun violence in America, and he said, 'my God-given right.'

I wish to God that when we get in our arrogant position of dictating through government, that we have respect for women

I find it ironic that my colleagues on the other side keep talking about giving the states the right to choose about abortion, but you want to take their right to choose away from a woman.

We at a time, we had the Wild, Wild West where every American walked around with a gun.