Political Quotes

“Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause to prohibit FGM, and that is why I was very glad to be the author and sponsor of this legislation by introducing this--what the cosponsors and I believe--is an important bipartisan bill. My former colleague, Congressman Crowley of New York, worked with me on this for many, many years. Our goal is to protect all women and girls from the practice of FGM and to provide the Justice Department with an effective means of prosecuting those who commit this terrible act. That is why I support this legislation and authored this legislation at the same time. Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, and the Congressional Black Caucus, and as the bill sponsor, I rise in strong support of H.R. 6100, the ``Strengthening the Opposition to Female Genital Mutilation Act of 2020,'' which I introduced with the Congressman Bacon of Nebraska, the lead cosponsor. I want thank Chairman Nadler for his tremendous leadership during this Congress and the past several months of hardship, stress, and disruption not only of the regular normalized operations of this Committee but of the Congress and more importantly, the lives of the American people. It has been said of Americans that we do the difficult immediately, and the impossible takes a little longer.…”