Along with many of my colleagues in the CBC, I was an original cosponsor of H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act.

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 11 minutes remaining.

I am honored to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the honorable majority leader of the House. (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I have been persistent in my efforts to protect the rights of disenfranchised communities in my district of inner-city Houston and across the Nation.

I thank Madam Chair for yielding. Indeed, I am a strong supporter of the Bank and I am also a strong supporter of the chairwoman. I support this legislation because the Export Bank is not a traditional bank. Traditional banks take…

And still I rise. And I rise tonight with love of country and heart inspired by ``Harriet.'' ``Harriet,'' the movie. I saw the movie, ``Harriet,'' and I was inspired to speak tonight because of some of the horrors associated with the…

And still I rise. And still I rise because I love my country. And today I rise to defend those who are recipients of the DACA program. I rise to defend these young people because, unfortunately, bigotry is being weaponized against them. I…

I thank the gentlewoman for more than her kind words. I thank her for her many years of service here in the House of Representatives. She has acquitted herself as a Congressperson par excellence: Yale, M.A.; Yale, L.L.B.; in Congress for…

Babies ought not be separated from their parents, Mr. Miles. Babies ought not be separated.

You knew before you came that laws were being broken but you picked on the undocumented persons to the exclusion of the employers.

Is it true that you separated mothers who were breastfeeding?

Let us not make the mistake of assuming that what ICE imposes is not the will of the President.

Taking babies from mothers is not the deterrent that this country wants to be known for.

We are a better country, Mr. Miles. We are a better country.

You planned to separate the children from their parents?

This is not the way we treat people in the United States of America.

It seems to me that in targeting we ought to at least, before we perfect a raid of this type, talk to the local sheriff.

As a patriotic American, as you are, Mr. Miles, as you are, Mr. Lee--Sheriff Lee--as you are, Mayor, I say to you this kind of behavior is totally unacceptable.

It is difficult to imagine how a President can see children separated from their parents--babies--and still say that this is a deterrent.

In my world that parent is separated from the child.

The evidence show that you separated children from their parents? It does.

And still I rise because I love my country. And I rise tonight also because we had a hearing today in the Committee on Financial Services. We had the hearing today because of words that Dr. King called to our attention. He reminded us…

I know enough about it to suggest that it appears to me that we are not being even-handed in terms of our approach.

But you are using inflammatory language.

Nowhere in the law do we have language such as what you just used. That was done to inflame.