Steve Cohen

I planned to introduce a bill to amend 42 U.S.C. 1983 to allow individuals to bring claims against a law enforcement officer's employer based on a theory of respondeat superior liability.

I believe that this piece of legislation is a good piece of legislation that moves the ball forward.

Part of the reason why I am so encouraged today is more people are recognizing that now, and the systematic racism and oppression that has existed, that we're now coming together to fight and establish a solution.

You were not invited to the hearings where in Homeland Security we talk about the threat to our law enforcement officers that put on blue and Black every day.

Let's agree to empower good police officers to continue to protect and serve.

Defunding the police or otherwise handcuffing the police has its consequences.

We commit a grave injustice to those who have died at the hands of police and those who have died at the hands of violent criminals if we don't deal with the root causes of crime.

Don't blame the police. It takes a special kind of courage to protect those who can't protect themselves.

It would help me now--I tried to do so some research myself.

I think this is a reform whose time has come.

H.R. 7120 contains in it a change in qualified immunity, basically an elimination of qualified immunity, and that's important and it's good.

The five States with least access to voting by mail, my home State of Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, are all States that had slavery.

The right to vote has been diminished for years, and it goes back to America's original sin, it is inscribed in our Constitution, which we fought a Civil War over and still never overcame.

I want to thank the Republicans for allowing us to move the hearing up an hour so that Ms. Abrams could participate.

The Republican National Committee had sent out a mailer saying that mail-in voting is an easy and secure way to vote.

The idea that the concerns have been overblown is just outrageous.

The elections have been thrown into disarray by COVID-19.

States also know best how to steal elections, how to suppress the vote, how to depress the vote, and how to disenfranchise African Americans and racial minorities.

We can see that people will exercise their First Amendment rights if they think it is important.

And to hear inflammatory rhetoric that you are choosing your life over your vote is just not appropriate.

I do not advocate for universal mail-in balloting. I advocate for mail-in balloting in the 2020 election in response to the COVID pandemic.

If it is your vote that is stolen, it is your right that is destroyed.

I support mandating that all States provide voters with the option to vote by mail this November.

Your elected representatives are either for our democracy or against it.

Let me tell you something that is in this bill: There is a repeal of about a $100 billion tax break for the richest people in this country that Trump and McConnell snuck in CARES 1. We didn't see it at first. We found it. We put out a…