Dwight Evans: “I stand here representing the Congressional Black Caucus and our chairman, Cedric Richmond, who has initiated this…”

“I stand here representing the Congressional Black Caucus and our chairman, Cedric Richmond, who has initiated this particular Special Order for the Congressional Black Caucus to have this opportunity to speak to the issues specifically connected to the African-American community. As a result of the chairman's leadership, we have laid out an agenda that we think is very appropriate to lay out. We think it is important that all of our constituents, particularly all Americans, recognize that the Congressional Black Caucus has solutions. There is a document here that was put together under the leadership of Chairman Richmond. When the President stated sometime in August of 2016: ``What do you have to lose?'' the chairman came up with the idea of a document that we would lay out, ``We Have a Lot to Lose: Solutions to Advance Black Families in the 21st Century.'' Over this next year or so, we will be talking about solutions relating to African-American communities. We think that African- American communities, like all Americans, should recognize that there are solutions to some of these challenges. With the President giving his speech last week on the state of the Union, the topic that we will talk about today is economic justice in the Black community. The topic, again, is economic justice in the Black community. First, I thank my wonderful colleagues for joining me here today to speak about economic justice in the Black community, an important topic to us all.…”