"We need to give people in the District of Columbia the right to vote."
"I believe that we will achieve our goal. This has been a long fight."
"the disenfranchisement of Puerto Ricans is rooted in the history--the colonial and imperialist history that we have had"
"We cannot stand for that, and to uphold and to deny... is to deny the impact of slavery in America."
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I would like to thank my colleague Ayanna Pressley and Mr. DeSaulnier for your work also in organizing this hearing and a critically important issue at this time."
"I'd also like to apologize to you both for the behavior of some of the members of this committee where they are speaking in profoundly dehumanizing terms to you, and you don't deserve that."
"I would like to apologize to you on behalf of the United States of America for the dehumanizing policies that they are pursuing to--that are, frankly, targeting you and targeting many people in the Un..."
"This is a cruel policy change, and this fits a pattern that we have been seeing over and over again before this committee of a culture and an of policies specifically almost animated by cruelty."
"I think it sounds fair. I think it'd be good for us to come together and at least provide some certainty for the lives of these folks."
"The Supreme Court has ruled several times that ongoing litigation is not valid grounds for resisting an answer to congressional questions."
"the Supreme Court has determined it, that ongoing litigation is not grounds to resist an answer to a congressional inquiry."
"there has been a lot of chaos caused by this policy change, and the administration, because they did not advise Congress ahead of time on how this would be enforced or what would happen, there are a l..."