Tom Malinowski: “I think we should debate the substance of this rather than suggest that any of us on this side have not thoroughly…”

In closing, Mr. Speaker, I just want to thank, again, my colleagues, Chairman Meeks and Ranking Member McCaul, for introducing this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting it, and I yield back the balance…

It is equally appropriate for us, as Mr. Green did, to call out the silence and complicity of people on the other side when leaders in their party engage in, well, legitimizing racist ideologies, dangerous anti-Government ideologies in our…

I think most of the folks in my district who I represent, who have jobs today and would not have--I think we kind of agree some of them would not have jobs today--believe and would probably argue that it was worth it.

I think this agreement is a potentially huge step forward, and thank you to both of you and Ambassador Hammer and Secretary Blinken.