My colleagues and I are here today for this Special Order hour to celebrate Pride Month. Pride is a time of celebration of our community and its diversity. It is a time to uplift LGBTQ+ people all across the country and honor our…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Dean), an important member of the House Judiciary Committee.

I will make a couple of points quickly. This legislation has nothing to do with limitations on the Second Amendment. It has nothing to do with red flag laws. It has nothing to do with this claim of defunding the police. I have lots of…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his thoughtful words. I also want to mention that some of my colleagues earlier in the debate said creating this is going to create a fear of shooting. That is what Democrats are really up to, and…

This Pride Month we need to both celebrate the LGBTQI+ community and take action to further LGBTQI+ equality. A vote for today's bill is a vote to do just that. The Financial Services Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Economic Justice Act…

Almost 6 years ago I sat down right here on this floor with the late, great John Lewis and so many colleagues to protest the Republicans' unwillingness to take up gun safety legislation after the Orlando shooting at the Pulse nightclub. We…

Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights. You know who didn't have due process? You know who didn't have their constitutional right to life respected? The kids at Parkland, and Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, and Buffalo, and the list…

The American people are begging their elected officials to do something to protect them from the scourge and the ravages of gun violence in our country.

No one should vote for a candidate who is not committed to doing everything in their power to reduce gun violence in this country and to pass commonsense gun safety proposals.

Something is fundamentally broken when the vast majority of Americans are demanding this action, and the Republicans in the Senate still prevent it from happening.

Stop saying nothing in this legislation would change anything. That is a lie. That is not true. It will save lives.

Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights.

Abortion is healthcare, plain and simple. A person's decision on whether to become a parent is one of the most important that they can make in their life. A woman's decision on whether or not to have an abortion should be hers alone…

I trust people to make decisions about their body.

Across America every day, this fundamental right to healthcare is being dismantled by politicians, usually men, pushing false narratives to control women's bodies.

The nation that my Republican colleagues want is terrifying. A handful of unelected, unaccountable, far-right Supreme Court justices encouraging States to seize control of the bodies and decision-making power of women across America.

We need to update and modernize our antitrust laws, and then, give enforcers the resources they need to stop anticompetitive conduct and ensure the marketplace is competitive.

We must bring other policy tools to bear as well. We need to incentivize investment in the United States and discourage outsourcing.

this Committee, and also the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee--really does have a lot of work to do to bring antitrust laws up-to-date and make sure that we have bold and strong antitrust enforcement.

Finally, we should utilize the Defense Production Act to ensure that we have sufficient supplies of essential goods and to crack down on bad-faith hoarding of scarce products to resell at exorbitant prices.

I would just note that the bill you're referring to I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of.

critics of the Biden Administration have tried to use inflation and supply chain disruptions, and even Russia's attack on Ukraine, to score some political advantage.

I think Congress ought to restore and strengthen that authority as well.

We need to incentivize investment in the United States and discourage outsourcing.

We should have a robust protectionist trade policy that protects the American people from concentrations of power and protects the international system on which we depend for promoting a peaceful international set of democracies.