David Cicilline

Religion is no excuse for discrimination as we have long recognized when it comes to race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, and it should not be when it comes to sexual orientation or gender identity.

It is time we make clear that none of these are acceptable forms of discrimination.

The Equality Act will help protect and defend that liberty for LGBT individuals, women, and others.

This is long overdue legislation that will explicitly prohibit discrimination against LGBT and gender nonconforming Americans.

As my great friend and colleague Congressman John Lewis told me when we began this work on the bill, the time is now.

The Equality Act seeks to level the legal playing field so that all Americans have a chance to thrive.

We have such widespread support because businesses know that their employees thrive when they are free from harassment, when they are able to visit doctors, take their children to school, and live freely.

Speaker Pelosi has been an extraordinary and great champion for our community and a bulwark of support for this bill.

Now is the time for legal discrimination against an entire community of Americans to end.

We see you. We support you. And we believe in you.

That is why I am a proud cosponsor of the Equality Act.

As our LGBTQ brothers and sisters move around this Nation, they should never have to fear losing a job, being evicted from a house or apartment, refused service at a restaurant, denied approval for a loan, or rejected admission to a school…

Cowardice asked the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asked the question, 'Is it politic?' And vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular? But conscience asked the question, 'Is it right?'

I am asking you today whether you will reconsider your position and go back to that past practice and bring greater transparency.

You and other Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that military action is an option in Venezuela.

Recent proposals from the Trump Administration in the last year to remove several types of military model firearms from the U.S. Munitions List under the jurisdiction of the State Department, and move them to the Commercial Control List…

Our Nation's export control regime is a critical tool for ensuring that the weapons, materials, and technologies that we produce for military and commercial purposes, particularly those that can inflict deadly harm, do not end up in the…

President Donald Trump is regarded widely in NATO capitals as the alliance's most urgent and often most difficult problem.

I would like to thank you and Ranking Member Kinzinger for calling this hearing, so that we can have an opportunity to discuss one of the most important relationships in the world, the transatlantic alliance.

The United States is committed to our partnerships with Europe, and Congress will continue to support the transatlantic alliance.

I think it's completely appropriate. I think it would be helpful to the American people.

Oh, absolutely. Look, the chairman of the committee Mr. Nadler has already said if the full report is not provided to the committee, that we will issue a subpoena to obtain the report.

I think it would be very valuable to the American people to have Mr. Mueller come before the Judiciary Committee in public, and walk the country through the report, walk the country through the findings he made, the evidence he collected…

The important thing is the American people have a right to know what the special counsel found.

I don't think it makes sense at all to allow one of subjects of this investigation to have a sort of sneak preview and decide what the American people get to see.