William L. Clay: “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, and it is a good law.”

While President Trump recently tried to take credit for December unemployment numbers, showing African American unemployment at its lowest recorded level, this too is part of a long-term trend that started under the Obama Administration.

I can say with great confidence that everyone in this room agrees that discrimination in all of its forms is abhorrent.

How dare you wholesale remove people from rolls? How dare you do that? And it is not all right.

I think more work still needs to be done to reverse decades-long inequality that has left middle-class workers, low-income families, and minority communities behind.