Yvette Clarke

This bill is a Trojan horse, using the premise of congressional ethics reform to advance a broader effort to restrict access to the ballot box.

Not since Jim Crow have we seen this level of systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters.

As someone who has called Brooklyn home for decades, I know firsthand the challenges that communities like East Flatbush have faced because of years of disinvestment, a shortage of affordable housing, and longstanding health disparities.

Our victory—while monumental—does not change the truth that this war never should have began, and never would have began, had the president not disgraced America and our laws to ensure that it did.

Corporations that have profited from Black consumers, relied on Black workers, and amassed wealth in part from Black communities cannot look away while Black political power is dismantled in plain sight.

Silence in this moment is not neutrality — it is complicity.

This is not politics as usual. This is a defining moral moment for our country.

I rise tonight, Mr. Speaker, with my colleagues of the Congressional Black Caucus to bring awareness to the fast approaching ACA tax credit funding deadline and to give voice to everyday Americans who will be harmed by the Republican-led…

When the gentlelady from New York looks at the screen — if she wants to check her hair, she wants to say anything she wants to to that screen — she has the right to do so.

I have no more speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representatives Strong and Suozzi for leading on this bill, I urge all Members to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The DHS Cybersecurity Internship Program Act will advance our shared goal of strengthening the American cyber workforce while supporting DHS' effort to recruit the next generation of cyber talent and to defend the homeland. Mr. Speaker, I…

While artificial intelligence and cybersecurity will remain important elements defending the country, these are not just technological issues but critical civil and human rights issues as well.

I really think that as part of a Committee on Homeland Security we have an obligation to really bring our immigration laws into the 21st Century and do it in a bipartisan manner.

I believe that we as a Nation, particularly a Nation of immigrants, have an obligation to bring our immigration system into the 21st Century so that we can live up to the creed of our Nation.

Just 700 miles from our border, the Nation of Haiti is facing an unprecedented crisis. Gangs control their capital city, Port-au-Prince, and every-day citizens are being terrorized by brutal murderers and kidnappings.

People don't choose to leave their families and communities, their culture, their language on a whim. Most often people leave because their very lives are at stake.

We are here today because Republicans are demagoguing and exploiting the xenophobic and white supremacist ideologies that are fueling the immigration debate in this Nation.

The typical reason is the same as for most migrants, for work or a better life.

We treat everybody the same. It doesn't matter where they come from.

It is only a tiny fraction of border crossers who are coming from China.

I want to make sure that our friends from the Asian communities are not mischaracterized or misunderstood by who they are and what they are doing.

You should have received a letter or have been CC'd on a letter regarding the concern about individuals being returned at this stage who could be sent into harm's way.

Will you commit to working with me and this committee to reauthorize the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program?

It is my hope that this committee will work together to extend the vital program so we can build our initial investment.