Marcia Fudge

I am really grateful for an opportunity to come out here and talk about what we are all going through in our districts, on the telephone, in the newspaper, and in the grocery store. I picked up The New York Times on Sunday and there on…

The Congressional Black Caucus is incensed that some would choose to politicize the proposed extension of unemployment benefits. As the conscience of the Congress, the CBC will spend this Special Order hour reminding them of the Americans…

We would like to thank you. Mr. Speaker, I think that there is probably no one in this caucus who fought harder to get this bill passed. Our Chair, Representative Lee, is one of the hardest working Members of this entire body. She has…

I just want to close by of course recognizing the fact that, as we begin Black History Month, there is no better person for us to recognize today than Ruby Bridges. I want to thank her for her courage, her determination, and the work she…

If we start to put all of our resources into doing something that keeps taking five kids from here, five kids from here, five kids from here, then what we have, in effect, done is said to those people who are left, 'You know what? Figure…

I think you do have to have the will.

I think almost every one of you except maybe one used the word 'failure' for traditional public schools.

I am from the state of Ohio, so I think I look at things a little differently because most of our charter schools are not public charter schools.

I have two very quick questions.