Steve Cohen

This is a Rubicon that is being crossed here. It is an unprecedented event that we are seeing.

This report and its conclusions are not only wrong, but they are also offensive to your colleagues.

All of the reforms that we have been talking about here about reducing mandatory minimums, about reducing drug disparities, all of those need to be retroactive, so that people currently serving sentences for those things can be released…

It is insanity to continue dealing with it in the same way. We have had a failure for years.

I am a big fan of Amtrak and passenger rail.

To quote, Edward R. Morrow, 'one cannot accept that there on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument. We have unfortunately millions of pieces of evidence for the Holocaust. It is an historical fact and denying it is not…

Today around the world, demagogues appealed to our worst instincts, conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream, hate crimes are surging as murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities.

Climate change is one of the major reasons why I wanted to be on this Committee, and protection of our waters and oceans.

Our bill would offer full cash refunds for all cancelled tickets during the coronavirus pandemic.

I believe that this has been woefully inadequate.

I stand in support of this legislation. I have stood in support of this right for over 25 years. When I was a Tennessee State Senator, I was the only member of the State Senate to vote against a constitutional ban on gay marriage. It was a…

We have got to fight against the White extremists and make our country safe again.

It has been a very interesting hearing, and the sad part of it is some people still don't recognize that we went through the most horrific experience that the United States of America has ever been the victim of from within.

Wake wake up today and we have lost more lives now to domestic terrorism than to foreign terrorism.

This is why White nationalism racism is a cancer in our society.

The Safe System approach offers an alternative to sole dependence on enforcement and individual drivers for safety.

You addressed the issue of people of color in low-income communities being overrepresented pedestrian fatalities and underrepresented investments in their infrastructure.

I think my time is kind of winding down.

We must do better, and we can improve and get away from this unconstitutional racial profiling.

The racial profiling of drivers by law enforcement sows divisions and distrust and ultimately distracts from the intended goal to save lives.

Disparities in the criminal justice system, particularly police enforcement, have been a major source of political protest and social unrest in our country and rightfully so.

We need to have a study of what we can do to give people a proper share at the table.

We should not fear a study, and it does not deal simply with slavery.

We have a problem in this country, and we need to deal with it, and we need to make amends.

It did not end with the Civil War. It did not end with Baker v. Carr.