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Marc Veasey is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 33rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic development throughout his tenure. Veasey has been an advocate for policies aimed at improving access to healthcare and addressing the needs of his constituents in Texas. He has also been involved in discussions around voting rights and immigration reform, reflecting the diverse demographics of his district.
I thank my fellow Texan and colleague for her timely remarks. I think the American public really would be interested in what she talked about with the criminal background history that this Commission wants. I know that there are a lot of…
I thank the gentleman from New Jersey, particularly for pointing out about the hands that built this building. That is something that is not widely known, that the hands that built this building were not hands of free men but hands of…
I thank Representative Beatty. I really appreciate her participating again and her comments, and we are going to take her call and continue to push on this issue. Mr. Speaker, I would like to invite my friend and colleague up from the…
I thank Representative Plaskett for yielding. I really do appreciate the gentlewoman heading up tonight and coanchoring and talking about the contributions of Caribbean Americans, and also talking about this health-scare bill that is going…
I am fortunate to represent the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where a blend of cultures has shaped our community, from the food that we eat to the traditions that we celebrate. The north Texas area has benefited from immigrants that now…
Right now we are facing one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has reported that over 65 million people are currently displaced due to war, famine, persecution, or human…
They were teenagers at the time. Even after the DNA evidence exonerated them, he still said that maybe they could be guilty of something. I thought that was a terrible thing to say. Of course, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined…
Absolutely. We do need action taken by this administration, Representative Plaskett. I mentioned to you earlier that I wanted to talk about the President's history on racism and some of the things that came out in the campaign--not…
Even condoning the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester, his history extends before that. Of course, it was very well covered, very well chronicled during the campaign about the Justice Department suing his real estate company and his…
The gentlewoman is absolutely correct. In 1989, he encouraged and celebrated the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park Five and took out full-page ads in New York area newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty in response…
I thank Ms. Plaskett for starting off this Special Order hour on racism and discrimination in the age of Trump. I really think that this is important and timely that we talk about this because, as you mentioned, these incidents are on the…
Very briefly, we have the President's history on racism from the very beginning of his candidacy, of course, and the way he disparaged Mexicans and Mexican Americans in this country by calling people rapists and accusing people of bringing…
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