Nydia Velázquez: “While the small business economy has made tremendous progress toward recovery over the past 17 months, we are entering…”

It is a disservice to our nation's small firms to oversimplify this issue, as a mere consequence of federal spending.

I urge my colleagues not to engage in knee-jerk reactions that set back our real progress toward creating a more equitable criminal justice system.

Kids can only live happy and healthy lives if we keep dangerous chemicals out of the water and air.

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.