Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman for yielding. And I also thank, of course, my good friend and colleague, Congressman Don Payne, from across the Hudson River, who does such a tremendous job of representing the people of…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from California for yielding and for her leadership. Let's be clear. The opponents of this legislation are not playing the race card. America for centuries has played the race…

One of the things that they had in common was that the weapons that were used to kill each of these offices came from outside of the State.

It's my understanding that the Department of Justice is currently investigating whether the civil rights of Eric Garner were violated

But some certainty of punishment absent cooperation is very, very valuable in eliciting cooperation.

I certainly think it's important for us to be thoughtful.

And yet no one has presented a shred of evidence, a scintilla of evidence that Planned Parenthood has done anything wrong.

This is theater. This is a charade. This is stagecraft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a woman's right to choose, which, by the way, is constitutionally protected.

That is part of Silicon Alley. I am so glad that you are familiar with our East Coast lingo. But it also has more college students in downtown Brooklyn than Boston and Cambridge combined. So there has been a great number of young people…

That is absolutely correct. I think what we have to do is really work on changing the equation to facilitate the great minds that we have got in this current generation of younger Americans to be able to go out and be innovators and…

I thank the distinguished gentleman, first, from California for his leadership and for all that you have done to make sure that issues of importance to the next generation of Americans, such as the one that we are discussing here today…