I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. I believe it is so important that the communication--the work that we are getting ready to do here in the United States, to provide communications technology, needs to go forward. We must…

And I thank the manager for his kind words. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3202, the Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act. I very much want to thank the committee for bringing the Jackson Lee bill to the floor and the work…

I have often come to this floor to remind my colleagues of the devastation that the people of Texas have experienced with Hurricane Harvey. I certainly don't intend to ignore our other friends in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida…

Let me thank both gentlemen from California for their leadership and for their very important work on a very important crisis fight for human rights and freedom. Just yesterday I rose to the floor of the House to recount my experience over…

Freedom is not partisan. Yesterday, on the corner of Post Oak and Westheimer in Houston, Texas, I stood with Iranian Americans, linking arms with them as they protested and petitioned for a free and democratic Iran. I told them that the…

I want to thank Congressman Evans for the mighty leadership that he has given and for the service that he gives to his constituents in Philadelphia. I accept his challenge, and I accept the challenge of my chairman, Cedric Richmond, who…

I want to thank my Texas colleagues. We worked together, and I truly appreciate that and will thank them for it. Today, I indicated that I have constituents who are down testifying in Houston about their devastation, so I want to make this…

This has been a painful season for so many of us, from California to Texas to Florida, Louisiana, to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and so I am still here begging my colleagues for those who are begging in Texas. Right now, my…

We have 300,000 homes underwater. Puerto Rico has no lights in homes; U.S. Virgin Islands, none, no homes. Key West still needs debris picked up. What my constituents are saying is, because the lights are out, we are forgotten; because…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from New York; I want to thank the chairman; but I do want to take a moment and particularly thank the gentlewoman from New York for the kindness that she showed the first victims of this horrific hurricane…

They are throwing over the cliff the Medicaid recipients, people with dementia. My good friend who has ALS, who is in a wheelchair, thrown over the cliff. They are throwing over teachers. They are throwing over individuals who are…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. It is certainly my pleasure to be on the side of the gentlewoman from California. Every time we have got in these fights to attack Dodd- Frank, she has been on the right side of the…