Roy Cooper: “I thank the Chair. I yield now 3 minutes to my friend and colleague and fellow Blue Dog, the gentleman from Tennessee…”

I never really wanted to go to Washington. I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina, right here where I’ve lived all my life. But these are not ordinary times.

If Kamala Harris can win here, then she's the next president of the United States.

Today, for too many Americans, the middle class feels like a distant dream.

I think that she will be that kind of president. She will be the kind of president who understands what you have to do to get legislation through Congress.