Yvette Clarke: “I will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement.”

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.

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

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.

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