On behalf of the constituents I represent in Nevada, Medicare is vitally important to their quality of life.

During the recession, my home State of Nevada suffered the highest rate of foreclosures in the Nation.

I will just close by saying that if we want the next generation of students to live the American Dream and achieve the success that they are capable of, then we must challenge the growing trend of inequality in our schools throughout…

60 years ago, America was a country entrenched in inequality. Whites and African Americans were treated as two separate classes. Our society's education system, perhaps our most influential and important institution for future success…

I thank the gentlelady from California. It is now my privilege to yield to the gentlelady from New York, Representative Clarke, who continues to make her mark here in Congress. I am so honored to serve with her in this body. I continue to…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. Thank you for your historical frame on this important subject on the 60th anniversary of the Brown decision. Mr. Speaker, I would next like to yield to a true champion for working families in his…

I thank the gentleman from New York. Thank you for your wisdom and your sage advice and for challenging us, even today, to remember what the Brown decision is all about, and that is for people to truly be treated equally, not on the basis…

I thank the gentleman for reminding us of the great legal minds who contributed and helped build the case which resulted in the Brown decision and the fact that it took a strategic team of formidable legal minds to come up with the right…

The gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries) just mentioned the fact that New York, California, and Texas lead this issue. And, again, while we have made tremendous progress, as the UCLA study referenced by Representative Lee earlier this…

Thank you, Representative Lee, for explaining so well the link between poverty and race, and that they both contribute to the cause of segregation that we continue to see even today. There are those who want to suggest that race has…

I thank the gentlelady from Ohio for her very personal remarks and reminding us that the decision of Brown has very real impact on the lives of individuals and, for some in this body who lived during the time of segregation, to be reminded…

I just want to go on the record to say we will defend this city's marijuana decriminalization bill against any and every attempt to block it or to change it.

Mr. Chairman, the most important reason I am here today is to make it clear to the committee what really propelled the District to pass its own decriminalization law.

I would like to thank my good friend, my colleague, the gentleman from the great State of New York (Mr. Jeffries) for his leadership and for coanchoring this hour, and for focusing the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus and the…

the main thing we need to do as Congress is to properly fund and resource where there is the greatest return on investment, and that is through the CDRs.

I think, from what I understand, part of this problem is a huge backlog and a lack of staff resources.

I want to break in here because I want to ask about the continuing disability reviews.

It is my honor to join the Committee on Financial Services and I am proud to represent the people of Nevada's 4th Congressional District.

Now, no one supports excessive, burdensome regulations. But we also need appropriate regulatory oversight...

I thank the gentleman. First, I would like to extend my appreciation to my colleague, my good friend, and the ranking member, Mr. Levin, from the great State of Michigan, for hosting this critically important Special Order hour on…

The answer to the problems is not to decimate the Affordable Health Care Act.

That is what the Affordable Health Care Act is all about.

We are better than that, to let insurance companies do that to us.

We needed the system to work. Let me say it again, we needed the system to work.

I want to thank--or congratulate you and your agents for a job well done taking down the largest drug kingpin that we have ever known--one of the biggest threats to the world.