Political Quotes

“Despite what you may hear and read from the majority, there is actually a lot of common ground between the legislation that we are considering today here and the legislation that I am an original cosponsor of recently introduced by Senator Tim Scott and here by Pete Stauber. We ought to pass those provisions that we agree on and continue to discuss and debate the things we don't. Last week in the Judiciary Committee, as has been mentioned, we offered a dozen reasonable, thoughtful amendments to improve this bill. But every single one was rejected by the majority, every single one. Improving police-community relations is a critical issue that we should be working on together to solve, which could have a real and lasting positive impact on preventing future senseless acts of violence. We should also be working together to honor the memories of all of those lost in the recent unrest, including George Floyd and David Underwood and Breonna Taylor and David Dorn. Doing so would serve as a beginning to a healing process to emerge a stronger, more unified Nation. Madam Speaker, I represent Ohio's First Congressional District, which includes much of the city of Cincinnati.…”