you can't tell me what the problem is more than once because once you can identify it, then let's get about fixing it.

Where is it--is it more money needed? Is it the direction of leadership that we can keep this overall--

This problem is not getting less; it is increasing.

I believe it is absolutely critical that we act on these disparities to develop a plan for research.

I am proud to work with my colleague, Congressman Kildee, to provide funding for the Flint Lead Exposure Registry at the CDC.

We know for decades there was a refusal to establish or identify gun violence as a health crisis.

When are we going to start planning? And what is the plan to address these underlying conditions in the Black community, which I know are multiple?

I wish that the system hadn't gone down.

We need the Department to provide us with the information and documents that we asked for so Congress can get to the bottom of this.

This is not something that should be repeated.

Every Member on that floor was running for their life. It was absolutely unacceptable.

I don't give a darn who the President was.

I am horrified and dismayed, as you watched on television as the rioters breached the Capitol.

We need an independent commission to study, to understand what went wrong.

It is beyond me that in 2021 we are still having this debate on whether men and women are paid equally. And I just want to say to my colleague on the other side, being a Black woman in America, I can tell you I do not feel that she has had…

Help is more than just a concept. It is here.

I did an emergency task force on black youth suicide and mental health because we saw that there was an uptick in that community.

the only response we have is a police officer pulling up and discharging a weapon.

I have had to, as chair of this subcommittee, really lobby, fight hard for increased funding.

I think this committee should really look at the model that has become the point of the identification having a trained response.

We needed mental health trained professionals so that they could care for these children.

Women are not opting out of the workplace. They are being pushed out of the workplace.

And I don't want to leave without talking about student debt. Black women carry the largest amount of student debt in America.

I want to talk a little about maternal and infant mortality and morbidity because that is a huge issue.

I really feel that the mental health survival of our country is based upon our leadership.