Mondaire Jones

This is the party of insurrection. These folks, two-thirds of my House Republican Colleagues voted not to certify that free and fair presidential election, just after nearly dying alongside hours earlier.

If he is serious about saving our ailing democracy, he will void his support for, at the very least, reforming the filibuster to pass the For the People Act on a simple majority vote in the Senate. Anything less at this point is an insult…

There is no way out of this in terms of salvaging our ailing democracy without at a minimum, making an exception to the filibuster for purposes of securing the fundamental rights to vote in this country.

The only way to walk back is to pass the For the People Act and, of course, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We cannot do that without filibuster reform.

Our democracy literally hangs in the balance over the next few months.

That`s right. And of course, we do have a bill, the For The People Act. That would undo a lot of the voter suppression that we are seeing in the places that you mentioned.

We must pass this legislation. It would do, as I mentioned, a lot to undo the voter suppression by creating early voting periods and standards for voting by mail.

Senator Manchin`s ultimate proposal simply is no substitute for what is required to save our democracy.

I cannot imagine myself voting for something that does not address qualified immunity. It is what is going to deter officers in a meaningful way from engaging in the misconduct that is on the public conscience right now.

Our democracy is in crisis. The insurrection at the Capitol made that clear. We are seeing voter suppression being enacted in states like Georgia, Florida, Iowa, and Montana.

The project of the modern day Republican Party is not to compete on the merits of its policy ideas but rather to disenfranchise large numbers of the American electorate.

I have had enough of my colleagues` racist insinuations that somehow the people of Washington, D.C., are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy.

This is of the utmost importance to me and to the hundreds of thousands of my constituents who deserve reliable and convenient access to economic opportunities in the city.

I urge the committee to provide strong funding and resources to complete infrastructure Projects of National and Regional Significance, including the Gateway program.

We are dishonest with ourselves if we think that the lack of judicial diversity in this country does not impact judicial decision-making.

As our country becomes more diverse, our courts are becoming more homogeneous.

Descriptive representation drives substantive representation. Who serves in our Government shapes who our Government serves.

This is as you just described, transformative stuff. I mean we have a democracy that has been under assault.

The modern Republican Party, the party of Donald Trump is not interested in competing on the merits of its policy ideas but rather in winning elections through disenfranchising primarily black and brown people in southern states and also…

we need a modern-day voting rights act because voter suppression is rampant.

ICE is a rogue agency. With the help of right-wing operatives in the federal bench, ICE is choosing to ignore the President`s deportation moratorium.

You cannot trust a number of these people and that is -- that is an extraordinary thing to say about, you know, about your colleagues in the United States Congress.

I rise in support of the impeachment of Donald J. Trump -- the disgraced, defeated, president of the United States. There must be consequences for last week`s treason and sedition.