I think Biden`s pledged to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court more than his own endorsement was what catapulted him to the Democratic nomination in 2020.

I want to make sure that it's a woman that will get universal support. When I say universal, I mean, bipartisan support, and I know that Michelle Childs will have the support of several Republicans, including the two Republican senators…

I think it would be well for that to happen. As you know, I'm a big fan of Everett Dirksen and that was one of the things I admired about him. He made sure that the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were both a bipartisan issue.

These people are American citizens and should have been treated better.

It's an issue that the Republican Party has created an identity, unfortunately, that has bred a mistrust of science.

We need to do our jobs and look into all of these items. This country spent, through Congress, over $6 trillion of taxpayer money, some of it directly on COVID relief.

If we sit idly by as the Biden administration keeps fumbling this pandemic response, then things will only get worse.

Americans want accountability, Mr. Chairman. Let's have hearings to get to the bottom of all of these crises that have been created by this President's failed response to the pandemic.

I will say to all my friends, that they`re in the Senate, that nobody is asking you to give up the filibuster, that I wish they would stop saying that. We asked you to do for voting rights and constitution right the same thing that you`ve…

I don`t know anybody who would want history to look back and says, they were the ones that contributed to the undermining of the democracy, because as Nancy Pelosi stated in the piece that you put up, this is not about black folks and…

If you cut off the vote, you cut off people`s voices. You are silencing people, which means you are consenting for this to take place.

Let`s accommodate people today change it. Not get rid of it. Just say, that the filibuster would not be used for constitutional issues like we don`t allow it to be used for budget issues.

On the other side, the gentleman was shortsighted in his debate in the legislature simply because Warnock was in this runoff. It was Black against White. But the people of Georgia decided they would elect a Black guy. So the Georgia…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge passage of this legislation carrying the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to the Senate for immediate…

I first got interested in and started studying history as an 8-year-old. I grew up in a parsonage where my brothers and I were required, every morning before breakfast, to recite a Bible verse and, every evening before retiring to bed, we…

I would say to both of them, remember the history of the country. Remember what`s gotten this country to be what it is today.

Is it a power grab to want the right to have your vote counted? That`s not a power grab. You are trying to be a part of this great experiment that we call a democracy.

Well, you know, Senator Manchin has on occasion said that in order for the thing to work right it needs to be bipartisan. I will remind him that the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the amendment that gives the former…

I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 863 Resolved, That unless otherwise ordered, the hour of daily meeting of the House shall be 2 p.m. on…

I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 861 Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by the Speaker to notify the President of the…

The President came out today with a full throated endorsement of Joe Manchin's bill. The so-called Freedom to Vote Act is Joe Manchin is legislation.

This is about democracy. Will we have free, unfettered votes -- voting in this democracy?

Well, I understand the frustrations. Quite frankly, as you know, I've been advocating now for over 10 months, that there ought to be a carve-out on this issue of the filibuster when it comes to constitutional issues like voting.

I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 862 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House inform the Senate that a quorum of the House is present and…

the problem is the image. There are people who just generally feel that we are not being tough enough.