We can be whatever we have the courage to see.

Madam Speaker, on behalf of my constituents in the Bronx and Queens, New York's 14th Congressional District, the most impacted district in America, calling people losing their families every day, it is a joke when Republicans say that they…

Mr. Speaker, I represent one of the hardest hit communities in the hardest hit city in this country, Queens, New York-- 13 dead in a night in Elmhurst Hospital alone. Our community's reality is this country's future if we don't do…

We have to change our priorities in the United States of America. We have to change our priorities, and we have to make sure that health care, education, housing, all of these things are very, very strong right now.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleagues, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, for hosting this week's Special Order hour on an issue that is so critically important to all people who want healthcare and need equitable access to…

I say religious liberty does not extend to firing people based on who they are.

The government has to be this neutral place, neither favoring or disfavoring any religion.

The appointment of one gay person to an important post does not compensate for the systematic discrimination against LGBT people.

LGBT children are very, very vulnerable. The rates of suicide are much higher among this--among young Americans who are LGBTQ.

We know that this is happening and that she is failing LGBTQ youth.

Sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago, that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for…