Madeleine Dean

The big lie and the continuation of by our top elected officials on the other side makes everyone in this country unsafe.

A roof over my constituents' heads to raise a family, to live their lives, and ultimately to age with dignity is critically important and desperately needed.

Housing is, as we know, the base level of infrastructure, the most basic and important pieces of infrastructure in our communities.

This was an attack on our democracy. This was an attack on our Capitol. Lives were at risk and lives were lost.

We had a former President of the United States incite Americans to attack Americans, so that`s why this has become a political football.

We need that kind of a commission. Something that is nonpartisan, that is actually pro-American, to say what happened, why were we attacked?

Thankfully, the Capitol Police and many others saved hundreds and hundreds of lives. People should stop listening to the former president, and absolutely believe their eyes.

My blood is boiling with your initial reporting there. I was there on January the sixth. We were there in the Capitol. And the insurrectionist didn`t give a damn if I was a Democrat or Republican or a staffer or a visitor. They were out…

They are severely underrepresented. They add value to the workplace, to the workforce, to any enterprises or endeavors.

I introduced and will reintroduce the Restore America's Main Street Act to provide unrestricted direct cash relief to the smallest of businesses.

We all say that diversity is our strength. So I am glad we are talking about the need to recognize that strength and also promote it.

Now we get to do what we progressives came to D.C. to do, which is to invest at the bottom, and that will be an economic engine for GDP.

They want the vaccine. They want shots in arms. They need those survival checks. They need the enhanced and inclusive federal unemployment checks.

I think it should be a fully independent commission, perhaps with retired judges, those who would want to serve in order to collect the data, the evidence, review it against the law.

Senator McConnell, yes, you are talking about the president, but aren’t you also talking about yourself?

If we do not deal with our past, it`s going to be our future.

Please, God, that it never happen again. We never would have thought it would happen. But I hope they come forward, I hope whatever commission is set up is independent and has the full power that they can collect all of the evidence.

I hope they also collect the stories and catalog the stories of the heroes.

I don’t think somebody like Lindsey Graham, who has spoken out of both sides of his mouth, disgracefully so, should be anywhere near this commission.

I want a commission, I want it to be impartial. Certainly, the people you have just talked about have fully disqualified themselves from sitting on any such commission.

Donald Trump was trying to undermine our elections so that he could remain president.

In a speech spanning almost 11,000 words, yes, we did check, that was the one time, the only time President Trump used the word 'peaceful' or any suggestion of nonviolence.

Because the truth is, this attack never would've happened but for Donald Trump, and so they came draped in Trump's flag, and use our flag, the American flag to batter and to bludgeon.

Think of the week that we are in, it`s strange rhetorical setting. It was four years ago this week that the president of the United States swore his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. What…

I am ashamed for Lindsey Graham. I am shocked, but I guess I shouldn’t be, that he learned nothing, that it is the president who incited this mob attack, this insurrection against a joint session of Congress.