Nydia Velázquez: “America's economy has improved since the Great Recession and unemployment is at an 18 year low.”

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.

Today’s groundbreaking is the culmination of years of organizing by residents and community leaders for solutions to North Brooklyn's housing crisis.

Republicans want to cut vital food and healthcare support programs to pay for a tax cut for billionaires and large corporations. The GOP wants working families to pay for their billionaire handouts.

We need to bring a national standard to ICE agents, and we need to bring transparency and accountability.