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…

This path was made possible by activists like Harvey Milk, Bayard Rustin, Barbara Gittings, and Audre Lorde, to name just a few.

This is a civil rights issue. This is not about individuals opportunistically trying to take advantage of particular entitlements or benefits that are accorded to women.

equality means equality, and you cannot have full equality if we leave people behind.

He's now making up additional reasons to keep parts of it secret. This is not something the Judiciary Committee is going to accept that's why we're authoring the chairman to issue a subpoena tomorrow for the report in its entirety and all…

Mr. Barr is not allowed to make it up as he goes along and keep things from the Judiciary Committee that might be embarrassing to the President.

The American people have the right to know the full truth and need to see the full contents of this report.

No, the President doesn't have a point. Look, this is a very simple proposition. There was an investigation conducted on behalf of the American people. It took 22 months. Democrats fought hard to protect Mr. Mueller so he could complete…

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

We should all learn from that community what it means to be a member of one human family.

Thank you, Chairman Nadler, for calling this hearing and for your outspoken and unwavering support of the Equality Act from the very first moment we began to discuss it nearly 5 years ago.

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

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, long overdue legislation to close the gender wage gap and ensure equal pay for equal work. Too many Americans are not…

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

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

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

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…

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.

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 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.