"the Supreme Court in the disastrous and shameful Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013 substituted its own judgment for that of Congress."
"I appreciate this opportunity to carefully consider the impact of the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile on competition, consumers, and workers."
"Gender is biological. It is not a social construct. All the scientific evidence tells us that."
"This is the latest. And we have to expand our horizons to understand that transgender people are human."
"I also want to thank Ms. Jackson Lee for her longstanding and tireless efforts over the years to protect and strengthen the Act."
"This is a problem, we need to fix it, and I stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion to fix it."
"We have to expand our horizons to understand that transgender people are human, they are what they are, not by choice."
"I thank the chair for holding this important hearing today and for her leadership in the effort to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act."
"This critical statute, which we often refer to as VAWA, was signed into law in 1994, to help ensure that women in America are free from violence and free from fear."
"one of the major reasons that women are homeless is because of domestic violence."
"President Trump violated that basic command when he invented a so-called emergency as an excuse to build a wall that Congress explicitly rejected."