Given the timing and the coordinated attack against the peaceful demonstrators, it strains credulity that this was not planned for use of political purposes.

In Portland, we have seen mothers and we have seen veterans who were peacefully protesting, not threatening the Federal courthouse, beaten and gassed.

You misled Congress and the American people about Special Counsel Mueller's findings with your 'summary' of his report.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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