Last summer, communities in my district were devastated by Hurricane Ida.

It doesn’t surprise me, because, as you will call, the progressive strategy for the past several months has been to link both bills together, both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger Build Back Better Act.

Our democracy faces its greatest test since Jim Crow.

This is going to reduce the cost of health care, also the cost of child care. And, of course, it makes pre-K universal.

We have got to be talking about it nonstop, specifically how it’s going to cut costs for most Americans in this country.

This is transformative, life-changing legislation. And we are creating millions of good-paying jobs every year for the next decade.

If we don’t have a democracy moving forward, then we cease to be the United States of America that the world and that we know ourselves as.

There is a fine point and I think that that’s why it’s so important to conduct the investigation that Corey Bush and so many of -- other of my colleagues including myself called for early this year.

January 6 was an attempt to overthrow the federal government to stop the certification of that free and fair presidential election last November.

Expulsion has to be on the table. It is one of the most severe consequences, if not the most severe consequence that Congress can engage in.

I’m going to vote for the people. And that’s what I want and would urge my colleagues to do who are trying to block, again, this president’s broadly popular economic agenda.