Al Green

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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…

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…

There has to be a reform of that process.

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

Thank you for making it clear that Black lives do matter by having this hearing.

I support the increase in funding and the act that is on the floor today that would increase funding to the NPSG to $500 million for each fiscal year from 2023 to 2028.

The focus should be thinking about the economic inequality, the health disparities, and the other social conditions that lead to crime and violence.

I think that there is something resonant in all of those slogans that just indicates that we have a significant problem to address.

Capitalism without competition is exploitation.

I have opposed the Remain in Mexico policy for a lot of reasons and part of it is that I have seen that it doesn't work.

When you are in need in a given area of persons to work on a given disaster, how can I impact that process by recommending people...

I have a term that I use now, it is called the 'beneficial bigot'--a beneficial bigot has to be treated the same way you treat another bigot.

We cannot make a distinction between one bigot and another.

We have got a duty to help each other in these times of need.

I thank the chairwoman, Ms. Johnson, for the time. Madam Speaker, Dr. King was eminently correct when he reminded us that life is an inescapable network of mutuality tied to a single garment of destiny. What impacts one directly impacts…

And still I rise. Our country has a history of discriminating against people of color and women when it comes to the right to vote. But that all changed in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because, you…

Because I have a heart, I will vote for universal pre-K. I have been to the classrooms, and I have seen those babies' bright eyes, eager to learn. I have also understood while I was there that there were other children who wouldn't have…

I was meeting with victims of violence from Louisiana and Texas. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 362 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 363. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Axne…