I would rise today in strong support of the underlying bill which reauthorizes one of the most effective agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 4847 provides $70 million annually to the Fire Administration through 2012 to…

Well, if you look at the time that we actually spent in each area, given the fact that we spent less than 24 hours in any community, it would have been utterly impossible to do that trip commercially and -- and logistically.

Virgin Islands was one of many stops.

We are not nearly as robust in this area as we need to be. We could have had a major catastrophe on our hands.

Today, Representative Bennie Thompson said there's no jury in the state that would convict him.

Michael Chertoff is the head of the agency. He has to absolutely bear part of the responsibility for the inaction of that agency.

There's a bridge that connects my district with the neighboring state of Arkansas, that if that bridge is taken out, you would have to go 100 miles to get to the other side of the river. Well, it was not listed.

Today, we have celebrated, in some respects, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers who, in his lifetime, was misunderstood by a number of Americans. But here we are 40 years from that date on the floor of…

I rise today to talk about land loss in the black community. A recent Associated Press investigative report titled ``Torn From the Land'' documented how land has been unjustly taken from African Americans over the years and alerted the…

for more than 60 years, the Federal government has fostered rural development through farm credit and other programs that are vital to small farms. Small, minority, women and beginning farmers have often had no other access to credit than…

let me from the outset associate myself with my colleague's comments in opposition to this sense of Congress resolution. This sense of Congress resolution produces a cruel hoax on African American farmers in this country. Those of us who…

Today we will vote on the passage of H.R. 1279, a bill to rename the Federal Building and Post Office in Clarksdale, Mississippi, after one of Mississippi's most notable pioneers in the civil rights movement, Dr. Aaron E Henry. I might add…

the Rev. Jesse Jackson is truly one of America's unsung heroes, and today I stand before you to sing his praises. For many years, conservatives have held Jesse Jackson up as the poster child for liberal causes. They have chastised him and…

Nobody really supports individuals doing wrong. As long as the pursuit of the wrongdoers is within the confines of the laws and on balance, then the general public will support it. And I don't know any people that I talk to who support…

People sympathize with people who make mistakes. And those people who are Christian hope that the people who do wrong will see the error of their ways and seek some opportunities for redemption.

as a member of the Freshman Class Welfare Reform Task Force, and as the Representative of a district in which 40 percent of the constituents receive Aid to Families With Dependent Children [AFDC] and 34 percent receive food stamps, I feel…

I join by colleagues tonight in identifying and highlighting the redistricting struggle. In 1969, I was elected as alderman in my home town of Bolton, MS. Notwithstanding that election, there was a challenge that ensued. That challenge…

I stand today to pay tribute to a slain civil rights leader, the late Medgar Wiley Evers. After graduating from the public schools in Decatur, MS, he enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served in World War II. Upon returning from the Army…