"This must be the catalyst to trigger actions far beyond today."
"We are hopeful that today will be the catalyst to turn the pain, the agony, the justice delayed into action."
"We have to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. And we have to continue to be in this fight for justice because too many lives have been lost."
"We know all too close and too much about justice delayed is justice denied."
"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 ..."
"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."
"When we cut funds, when we don't make investments in public housing, it gives me great pause to ask why?"
"I worked in public housing and as a part of the movement."
"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."