Two Rhode Islanders have already tested positive for coronavirus, and dozens more are being monitored. Across the globe, more than 90,000 are sick and 3,000 have died. Rhode Islanders and all Americans deserve a strong, effective, and…

The American people deserve a coordinated, fully funded response to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But instead of taking the situation seriously, the President has mounted a confusing and chaotic response. He designated Mike Pence to…

$3.3 billion for international security for Israel. I think it speaks for itself, and I have always been supportive of stabilizing the region.

I support the $875 million for child survival and maternal health.

I support the continuation of funding for HIV/AIDS, $4.88 billion.

I support the $70 billion for the international affairs budget, and, I will summarize, that really reinforces the three-pronged approach diplomacy to fight terrorism, supporting our allies, building new markets for U.S. goods and services…

With Virginia becoming the 38th State to ratify the equal rights amendment, today we make it clear that Congress never intended the arbitrary deadline to act as a barrier to ratification of this vital amendment. Ratification of the equal…

President Trump stood in this very Chamber last week promising that he would protect Medicare and Social Security, but like so many things with this administration, that empty promise didn't even last a week. In fact, when he sent his…

I would certainly like your support for it because I think it would make a real difference.

The survival of our democracy is directly dependent on our ability to protect the integrity of our elections, particularly from foreign interference.

the survival of our democracy is directly dependent on our ability to protect the integrity of our elections, particularly from foreign interference.

I'd ask you, Director, in writing if you could identify where you would best use additional resources, I promise you I will advocate for them.

In my view, reproductive rights are human rights and without full access to reproductive health care including information about comprehensive sexuality education, contraception, and access to abortion, women and girls are undermined in…

I have to say for me it is sad to see in an ongoing and desperate attempt to please the impeached President that some are continuing to malign the extraordinary men and women of the FBI who serve the American people with honor.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of both the amendments to H.R. 550 under consideration today. I thank the Speaker for her courage in bringing these bills to the floor, and I thank the sponsors, my…

If I may just respond to some arguments that this will undermine our rights to self-defense. The President always has a legal right to defend America and defend U.S. forces and embassies. This resolution explicitly exempts the defensive…

It is our responsibility as a result to be certain that we keep your voice alive and the voices of other survivors to share your story and, most importantly, for all of us to absorb the lessons of the Holocaust.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, to honor the memories of the 6 million Jews and 5 million…

This notion of if we don't do this, the Attorney General has made the argument that somehow fentanyl will become legal is not true.

If there is any danger that an extension on this will make the problem worse and make more victims of this public health crisis, then that is not a good idea.

What we don't want to do is an effort to respond to this request actually make a very deadly problem more deadly.

In my State, 233 Rhode Islanders last year lost their lives to opioid overdoses, so we want to get this right.

I thank the gentlewoman for organizing this Special Order on this really important topic. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we held a hearing in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the administration's actions in Iran. Over the past few weeks…

There is clearly the political desire among the Mexican people to do this.

I just returned from overseas. I led a delegation of our colleagues, a bipartisan delegation, to visit our troops during the Christmas holiday; and, of course, we all were struck by the extraordinary service of these brave men and women…