It was today we could for a moment exhale. Exhaled not only for black America but for America.

whether it`s a $20 bill, a cigarette, an air freshener, this is something that the Congressional Black Caucus is going to be joining with other communities, civil rights groups, to make sure that our voices are heard and that we`re going…

The Congressional Black Caucus announced yesterday at the White House, with the President of the United States, that we are going to have Congressional Black Caucus Vaccination Week.

If you go back to 1966, in Chicago with the Housing Authority and HUD was sued for alleging that public housing had been built purposefully to keep Black families segregated from the White neighborhoods.

When we cut funds, when we don't make investments in public housing, it gives me great pause to ask why?

Yes, it was great to have the president here today because as you know we are in this healthcare pandemic with COVID-19. So to be able to say that help is here, and to be able to say what he is doing not only in the nation, but right here…

We need to have further discussions about how we fund and what we should do in Congress for public housing.

When you give individuals money, they put it back into the economy. And think about it. 60 percent of the American people wanted those dollars. And they believed in it.

I worked in public housing and as a part of the movement.

the faster that we can get to work there in the pipeline and creating the programs that allow diverse asset management, the better we will be as a country and a profession.

systemic racism exists, regardless of education, regardless of where you live.

It gives me great honor to thank our co- chair, the gentlewoman from Texas, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, the CBC's parliamentarian, a true constitutional scholar, and someone who is fighting for us every day to reauthorize the Voting…

8 minutes, 46 seconds on George Floyd's neck. ``I can't breathe.'' Say their names, Madam Speaker. Breonna Taylor, Casey Goodson, Jr., Andre Hill, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and so many more. While we can never bring them back and we cannot…

I think it’s important for us, as we’re doing with the Congressional Black Caucus through our education program, to encourage students that you have to come back, but you have to come back when it’s safe.

It’s very devastating that when we think of the coronavirus, we cannot think of it as a single issue. It is the economic issue and it is also the social justice issues.

There are dollars set in there for us to do education and awareness because the first lady, we should have had or she should have been able know what she needed before going there and getting in front of the line.

We are engaging barbershops and beauty salons to get engaged and to tell their constituents more about how to get the shot and where to go.

Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated. The vaccine is far scarier than COVID (sic).

It is with great honor that I rise today to open our first Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hour of this year, during Black History Month, utilizing to the fullest extent possible: Our Power, Our Message. I would like to thank the…

It is a shame that we must use precious time on the floor of the people's House to address the inflammatory remarks of Member Marjorie Taylor Greene. But just as we are in the midst of three crises of the coronavirus, the economic…

It is important that we take this step to affirm that conspiracy theories and outrageous lies have no place in the Congress, no place in the people’s house.

What I am going to say is for the American people because, for the past year, American people's lives and livelihoods have been turned upside down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether contracting the virus, losing their jobs, working…

It is an honor for me to be here today. Certainly, as we have heard, and research and the people's comments have supported, individuals need relief.

Domestic terrorists attacked our democracy, urged on by a sitting President. These insurrectionists believe Donald Trump's lies about the stolen election. They obeyed his call to attack. They literally carried his banner while storming the…

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding. I rise today to support this legislation because my constituents desperately need the unemployment benefits, the stimulus checks, the food assistance, the eviction moratoriums, the small…