"We need to make sure that districts like mine get equitable funding to make streets safe for all users."
"what is good for Memphis is good for the country."
"It is important that the old name not carry over. The FBI needs to be respected as an agency that does carry out its duties of being fair and just in administering justice."
"Director Hoover symbolized the dangers of the weaponization of the Federal Government."
"I introduced H.R. 1175 this year, and I have introduced a similar bill for many years, which would redesignate the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Building as the Federal Bureau of Investigation building."
"I felt there was great discrimination in the decision to take the headquarters--to consolidate in Nashville."
"It is absolutely inappropriate that our Nation's leading Federal law enforcement agency building still be named in his honor."
"J. Edgar Hoover did not uphold the laws of this Nation, the U.S. Constitution, or the standard of justice in many instances."
"We are entering a new phase of strategic competition that is growing more fierce with each passing day."
"Janet Yellen said in October that she supports using some of the Russian--some of the income generated by the immobilized Russian assets to help Ukraine."
"If Russia refuses to honor its moral and legal obligations to compensate Ukraine to help them rebuild, other countries can--and should--seize Russia's sovereign assets and transfer them to Ukraine."