Al Green

The Black home ownership rate was at a 50-year low, at 40.6 percent in Michigan.

African Americans, minorities, are the canary in the coal mine.

The recovery is not complete unless everybody benefits from the recovery.

Hurricane Harvey just made poor people poorer.

Model citizens do not just wake up one morning and decide they are going to try to overthrow a government.

We will not give up on bringing Mr. Nguyen home.

We want him back. He is ours. He belongs to us.

We refuse to allow him to be just another person who has been caught up in a system.

It's not the doctor's fault that patients are everywhere. It's not the nurse's fault that the crisis has suddenly overwhelmed that emergency department.

My concern is suspicionless surveillance, suspicionless surveillance, surveilling persons who are not under suspicion perhaps by accident.

I assure you that I want us to secure our airports, our ports of entry, but I am also concerned about suspicionless surveillance.

But one can only imagine what Mr. J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this technology.

You ought not be afraid to state facts. There are some people who don't want to hear me say, 'white men', but you have to state facts.

I think we have to be inclusive in all ways. I don't think we can leave out any segment of society.

Not one hand. Captains of industry, brilliant people all, not one hand.

I believe that we have a responsibility to secure our border, and I believe we also have a responsibility to deal with refugees, persons who are fleeing harm's way.

We ought not deploy our assets based upon fallacious information. Assets should be deployed based upon certainty and facts.

Our border is not weaker than Honduras or El Salvador, Guatemala. We have a border that we want to secure.

My desire to end invidious discrimination will only expire when I expire.

The root of the problem doesn't start with the birth of a poor person today.

It seems that the Trump cover-up mentality is permeating other areas of the government to the extent that consumers are going to be harmed.

The Trump Administration by and through the President himself refuses to honor subpoenas, refuses to encourage witnesses to testify, and, in fact, encourages witnesses not to testify.

We have a functioning facility that is making a difference in the lives of Americans, and providing jobs.

I believe that it has served a meaningful purpose.

Who has the right to close? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman in opposition, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry), has the right to close.