Madeleine Dean

It's time to have a national registry that has this information that could save lives and frankly, also promote community trust.

My sympathy is with you, but, more, my words and my actions will be with you. The world is watching.

It's time for Congress to Act and to create a national rubric for this.

If you doubt there is racism, look no further than the inequality of our life experience.

We are witnessing a long-overdue moral reckoning in our country, and each of us must examine how to be agents of that change, because we have a lot of work to do.

Our hearts and those of every thinking and feeling American are with you and your family, and we're committed to making the changes that we need to ensure that you, your family, and every family in this country receives the equal justice…

This is unacceptable. We must change. America must change.

Wells Fargo needs powerful leadership to right the ship and to correct the wrongs of the past.

How can I make a difference for folks who are sitting in State prisons, like the women at Muncy, in terms of pushing toward greater clemency?

When mercy seasons justice.

The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain upon the place beneath.

I have the real pleasure of, in a bipartisan way, with Guy Reschenthaler, Representative Reschenthaler, and others... introducing the Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act.

Cutting $6 billion to education at a time when we are not educating our kids adequately, it's shameful.

I have the honor--very small honor of partnering with the late Elijah Cummings on, the PREP Act.

Criminal justice reform is something that's a passion of mine.

The biggest impact of Citizens United is that it really took the gloves off with the broad language in Citizens United about how ingratiation and access can't possibly be corrupting.

However, a simple review of the numbers shows that there is a problem, and it is tied directly to the Supreme Court's ruling.

I think I will start, please, with Commissioner Weintraub, and this reflects some of the comments we just heard from Professor Smith.

I share that concern, and I hope that we will be able to move on that legislation, and I hope that the Senate would take it up.

The firearm used there was a ghost gun.

I want to affirmatively distance myself from some of the disparaging comments that I heard right here today that I really do not understand.

We need the Senate to swiftly pass the Violence Against Women Act, which contains additional protections for Native American women.

I strongly believe that Congress plays a critical role in addressing this epidemic of violence.

I hope you will urge this legislature and the President and the Senate to make sure that we close these holes, and we begin to save lives from gun violence.

I want to echo his urging of you to look at the two bills we passed nearly a year ago, H.R. 8, universal background checks, and H.R. 1112, closing of the Charleston loophole.