I rise and desire that the statement from Majority Leader Hoyer be acknowledged. His statement is styled, ``Hoyer Statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day.'' And I associate myself with many of the things in this statement, but the thing…

I have Jewish friends, as I believe most people do, and I have spoken to them about the horrors of the Holocaust. I have been to Israel, and I have been to Yad Vashem. I assure you, a visit to Yad Vashem can become a seminal moment in your…

And still I rise. I thank Mr. Meeks for what he has done to bring this legislation to fruition, as well as Mr. Wilson. I rise and I stand where I stand because we should all stand together. I stand here because we are engaged in a war for…

All life is precious.

And still I rise. And still I rise to be grateful to the Honorable Nydia Velazquez and Earl Blumenauer for what they have done to bring this bill to the floor. And still I rise for this job protections bill. This bill will not only protect…

It seems to me that we have to focus on doing something about those conditions.

families and other asylum seekers expelled back to Mexico are often targeted by drug cartels and face violence and extortion.

I went to El Salvador three times. I brought him home on the third time.

I have introduced H.J. Res. 919, calling for a Cabinet-level Department of Reconciliation with a budget indexed to the Department of Defense.

I would like for you now to give me one quick answer, each of you, and I will start with Dr. Berry.

The enslavement of Africans was an epitome of evil, and its stain on human history cannot be sanitized with the passage of time.

I support reparations. I support H.R. 40, from Congresswoman Jackson Lee.

Although the practice of slavery may have been legal at one time, it was, without question, a profoundly immoral practice necessitating atonement.

This would give us one agency within the government that oversees all of the various subsets and can bring all of this together for us.

I think we have a responsibility to legislate with that in mind when we consider bills that may further affect the rate of inflation one way or the other.

This is in part why--a large part, I might add--I introduced H.J.Res. 64, calling for an annual day of to prevent the sanitization and whitewashing of our seminal sin: slavery.

I have a resolution calling for a Slavery Remembrance Day.

We need a Slavery Remembrance Day, not only to remind us of the horrors of slavery, but also of the need for atonement.

And still I rise. I thank Mr. Nadler, Ms. Lee, and Mr. Perlmutter. Mr. Speaker, I rise because I see this as a bill that will benefit some of the least, the last, and the lost; people who have been denied access to housing, denied access…

And still I rise. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. And I rise as a proud Member of this august body. I rise with gratitude for the time that I have been afforded. I rise, understanding that time is precious. And I rise understanding that…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. In the richest country in the world, we cannot allow healthcare to become wealth care; available to those who can afford it. Mr. Speaker, this is why I support H.R. 6833…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, and still I rise. I rise tonight to take a stand on behalf of the pro-choice movement and women who have had to make the choice, women who have had to make this tough decision…

Discrimination is illogical. It makes no sense for people to do it, but it happens.

There has to be a reform of that process.

And still I rise, Madam Speaker. And I rise today reminded that Dr. King addressed this very issue decades ago. He addressed it when he shared his poem with us: Fleecy locks and black complexion cannot forfeit nature's claim. Though skin…