Roy Cooper

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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…

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.

I do not view the Secretary's certification as setting aside this process.

When we, in North Carolina, forced the Tennessee Valley Authority to significantly reduce coal-fired plant emissions, there was a demonstrable positive effect on public health.

Helping local governments make sure that they are rebuilt and built in a resilient way.

We need to take our...

We know that we have a lot of areas that are in danger of flooding.

We can't afford not to take urgent action to fight climate change. It is not too late, but it soon may be.

There is overwhelming scientific consensus that [human-induced climate change] is occurring.