I represented people, poor people, who otherwise had no voice.

Over the past 4 years which direction have we gone in? We have gone the wrong direction.

Memphis, unfortunately, is third in the country in pedestrian deaths, and that needs to stop.

Zero Black appeals court judges were appointed by Trump, zero out of about 65.

I do my job as judge, but I also feel I have a responsibility to my communities to make certain that people's dreams are enlarged.

I believe it is about half of the Members on the other side who have not taken their tests, and that is why we can't go back to our hearings like we would like.

It is important that we have not only the prosecutorial perspective that the judges experience, but also the defense perspective.

I would like to thank our colleagues, one of our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, Representative Greg Stanton, and our former House colleague, now Senator Ben Ray Lujan, for their leadership on this important issue.

We should put them on a program like the EEOICPA program that was referenced before and give Downwinders and uranium miners healthcare coverage just equal.

That is just a pittance, and it is pathetic that our values are more towards protecting and taking care of our weapons than we are with taking care of the people who were adversely impacted by the testing of those weapons.

It is a national shame, and I hope you will forgive me for not finding space to schedule this hearing.

When we came to Congress, my class of 2006 was offered the opportunity to go to Harvard University for a seminar. We were told there that one of the greatest problems facing this country was the lack of workers, that our birthrate was…