An arrest or conviction for even a minor drug offense in the United States can have life-long consequences to the individual who has been arrested or convicted of that crime.

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.

I believe that this has been woefully inadequate.

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

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.