Roy Cooper

Unlike Governor Hochul in New York, our Republican legislature is not going to amend the Constitution. But this Democratic governor is going to hold the line to protect women`s reproductive freedom in our state.

That`s why I`m excited about this infrastructure bill in Washington where the president has worked very hard to try to bring Republicans onboard.

Governors have become more and more important in this country particularly looking at our U.S. Supreme Court.

I think it`s more about what I`ve done and what our team has done. I think that people will disagree with you on issues if they believe that you`re doing the right thing and that you believe in your values.

President Trump promised and promised an infrastructure bill, and the states waited and waited. And finally, it took President Biden to deliver.

A special prosecutor should handle all matters involving the shooting, to help assure the community and Andrew Brown's family that a decision on criminal charges is without bias.

Brown's death is extremely concerning and body camera footage should be made public as quickly as possible.

The body camera footage should be made public as quickly as possible.

Initial reports of the shooting in Elizabeth City and death of Andrew Brown, Jr. this week are tragic and extremely concerning. The body camera footage should be made public as quickly as possible and the SBI should investigate thoroughly…

The people spoke. And they spoke powerfully. And they elected Roy Cooper as our next governor. And now they're trying to take Roy Cooper's power away.

I want all North Carolinians to get vaccinated. I’m proud of our state because we’ve been listed trusted community leaders in our African American churches, and our Hispanic communities.

The fact that we have more transparency from this administration -- we told them hey, we need to know several weeks ahead what we can expect so that we can get this vaccine to the right spot instead of the 24 to 48 hours we had with the…

To have a president who cares about this, who actually wears a mask, has a plan, it`s just like night and day. And we governors across the country are deeply grateful for the leadership of this administration.

We're particularly worried about the African-American community, a lot of understandable, deep-seated concern because of the horrible history that is there.

We cannot let weariness win. People are getting sick and dying. And it's up to all of us to try to come together, particularly after this election now, and do what we need to do to slow the spread of this virus.

From day one in this pandemic, governors have taken the lead, has stepped into the breach by coordinating, testing, and tracing, fighting for PPE, making the hard decisions on restrictions, educating people, telling them the truth.

This is going to be so important for us to get everybody vaccinated as quickly as we can.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am pleased to support the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Thankfully, maintaining a tradition of bipartisanship to get the 60th, a record, National Defense Authorization Act…

What I said we agreed to is that more could be done.

I thank the gentlewoman for her terrific leadership in the Strength in Diversity Act. I am afraid the gentlewoman from North Carolina completely misunderstood my amendment. My amendment would allow the 30 school districts that were…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise today to offer an amendment to provide $3 million for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment in order to continue the JASON scientific advisory group's…

Once again, I thank the great chair of the Appropriations Committee for including three words that Nashville, Tennessee, desperately needs in the pending legislation in order to better manage our Cumberland River. These three words are…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. No one loved Nashville, Tennessee, more than our friend and colleague John Robert Lewis. As a young man, he arrived in Nashville on a bus with a ticket purchased by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King…

I am proud today to speak on behalf of the Strategic Forces portion of the Mac Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank Ranking Member Thornberry for his outstanding 25 years of…

At a June 26, 2020 Statehouse news conference, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued a statewide requirement for citizens to wear masks while in public in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.