Mondaire Jones

How do you do that reasonably, by going to his right, on every issue, and then expecting voters, in a general election to just accept the fact that you're trying to ban AP African American Studies, in the State of Florida, right?

I mean, I think we're probably going to be the closest we'll ever -- we will have ever gotten, to a default, in the history of this country. And that's unfortunate, and it is a direct function of how extreme the Republican Party is.

This is about making sure that there's finally accountability, and through that accountability, hopefully changing the culture of policing.

I think it does. I do think that there are clear distinctions now if you group Pence and Biden in one category and the former President Donald Trump, who did not honor a lawfully issued subpoena, and as a result had to have those things…

Many of us are scared for our lives, and rightfully so. LGBTQ Americans know that gay bars and clubs are sanctuaries for our community to gather without fear of being judged simply for being who they are.

As I said on the floor of the House during debate on the Equality Act, to grow up poor, Black, and gay is to not see yourself anywhere.

Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.

Our democracy is in crisis. And the idea that any person, even a former president of the United States would be above the law is counter to what we know to be true about what democracy should look like.

The economic policies that he is advancing right now, including in this upcoming Inflation Reduction Act, these things are broadly popular with the American people.

There is no good reason why -- and folks on Wall Street will tell you this even if they`re being honest and typically in private conversation, why there should still be this carried interest loophole.

I think that`s right, Mehdi. And this is part of a broader problem. We also have an attorney general, who until recently, thought it would have been too inappropriate to investigate the former President of the United States who we know…

There’s nothing silly about protecting fundamental rights in this country.

fundamental rights are not up or should not be up to a vote.

we still have a democracy moving forward and defeat fascism, which is increasingly represented by the modern-day Republican Party.

we need to look very strategically at limiting the jurisdiction of an unaccountable institution called the Supreme Court of the United States.

I am one of only nine openly gay members of this body. For me, this is personal. I still remember where I was on June 24, 2011. The day the New York State Legislature passed marriage equality.

we are facing the worst assault on our democracy since the Jim Crow era. And so, we`ve got to defeat that voter suppression.

The far right six-three majority on the Supreme Court is on a rampage against basic freedoms.

Time after time you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live.

strong laws aimed at ending gun violence would actually be effective at accomplishing precisely what the goal is that House Democrats are talking about here.

it is the NRA with its choke hold over the Republican Party.

We`re talking about universal background checks, raising the age to purchase semiautomatic weapons, in the way that you have to be 21 years old to do any number of other things in our society that are far less deadly than owning a firearm.

I just reject the idea that any of my Republican colleagues have any good-faith basis whatsoever, to continue their obstruction and their opposition to something that is broadly supported by the American people.

Time after time, we have given you a chance to do something, after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Parkland. And time after time, you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live.

As the youngest member of this committee, I need to address my Republican colleagues on behalf of the generations of young people whom Republicans have condemned to grow up in fear that they will be gunned down at school.