Yvette Clarke: “I thank our Ranking Member McKinley for holding this very important hearing, very timely, on Federal climate leadership.”

Let me thank my dear colleague, Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, along with her partner, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, for anchoring this evening's Special Order hour honoring Shirley Chisolm. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on this…

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.

It has been 13 days since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, opening the door to a coordinated attack on Black political power and fair representation across the South. Since the Callais decision came down, Republicans…

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