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As long as I am given the privilege to serve in this great House, I look forward to carrying that legacy, the one that he started--to fight for the underprivileged, to bring attention to the critical issues that don't make the front page…
For over two decades, Rep. Payne served his constituents in New Jersey's 10th Congressional District and the Nation with courage and distinction.
There is a lot of dignity in being able to achieve things without having to create rapture.
Donald Payne was obviously the person they looked to for knowledge and insight into how we could get from where we were then to the plebiscite, to what is now the independent South Sudan, and hopefully it will remain so, notwithstanding…
I want to be a Congressman to serve as a role model for the young people I talk to on the Newark street corners.
It is a disgrace, the terror that he has inflicted on people. He should have been taken out 20 years ago.
We need to have new, young, vision and ideas. I don't necessarily mean young in chronological age. I mean people who have a vision.
I support the U.S. effort of sending U.S. troops to train the Ugandans and the Congolese.
I just hope that at some point in time, the Congress will come together and try to put American people first.
Job creation is the most urgent issue for millions of families and businesses across the country.
You stood tall and strong beside us in the darkest moments when the international community and countries of the region pushed back the Boat People.
I have always argued that for a dictatorship to prosper and to continue to repress its own people, it needs at least two major components: A very aggressive secret police that can use billy clubs and whatever, to repress its people; and…
So I just do think that tasering is an apt description because at the end of the day, it is the people that we care so much for, the democracy activists, the people who believe in freedom, who are getting tasered by these by the secret…
But frankly, the stakes are so high now, not just for China but for all of the other countries that now have learned from China to use these repressive tools.
Well, I think that we really need to start to come down and push these technology companies, as you mentioned, to grow up and to have a human rights component as a very important part.
But of course, we know that because malaria impacted on areas where there was not considered to be a return on the investment, many pharmaceutical companies just did not spend time trying to come up with a cure or a prevention, because…
Nations that fail to protect religious freedom and other rights are breeding grounds for poverty, war and violent extremist movements which give rise to terrorism.
We should care because first it is wrong to hunt down, imprison, torture, and kill people simply because they want to follow the dictates of their conscience.
Forty-three weeks, Mr. Speaker. For 43 weeks, my Republican colleagues have led the House, and they have failed to pass a single bill to create jobs. Our national unemployment rate has returned to 9.1 percent after declining earlier this…
Nearly 25 million Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed; yet despite this disparaging rate, efforts to strengthen the workforce are being derailed by special interest attacks on the middle class and workers. In Wisconsin…
I hope that one day he might once again just see the light and remember those days and come back to sanity.
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