This legislation is crucial and important. The reason is because it speaks to who we are as Members of the most powerful lawmaking body in the world. Mr. Speaker, I am glad to sit on the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with Chairman…

I thank my good friend. I will take 15 seconds. You can't provide for the doctors if you don't provide an increase in the debt ceiling. You know that. We have to pay our bills, and paying the doctors and making sure that they are protected…

If there is one thing that we have heard so often, it is doctors who have sacrificed during this period of the pandemic, who have maintained their offices. We often hear in public settings and private settings about the cuts that they are…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. A shutdown would induce furloughs that could hit 62 percent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, right in the middle of COVID-19. In addition, families would be desperate as well. I want you to…

I have been here since the Columbine tragedy, which is more than 20 years ago. I have faced a mountain of tragedies in schools with children dying at the hands of guns. I offer my deepest sympathy for the loss of the beautiful, precious…

I thank the gentleman from New York for both his leadership and his inspiration. He obviously cares. That is why he is on the floor tonight. I think that is the point that I want to make. It looks as if we are lonely on this floor tonight…

I thank the Chairwoman and all of the very important people on the Appropriations Committee for their work on this bill. I ask the question, what side do you want to be on? Do you want to be on the side that provides our hardworking…

Let me take this opportunity to do one or two things. First, I acknowledge my colleague, Congresswoman Slotkin and her district, to offer to her and the people of Michigan my deepest concern and sympathy for the loss of those precious…

The Federal Government is an umbrella on a rainy day. So the context of my remarks today will be about criminal justice issues and the unequal results that have come about through State laws. Let me say that the juries have spoken in two…

So the citizen's arrest laws should be very clear. The defendants were wrong. The case resulted in a conviction because the case says that you have to witness the crime, and they did not. I include in the Record an article titled ``Ahmaud…

Let me quickly say that we have the castle law, the stand your ground self-defense, and citizen's arrest. I believe all of these should be put into the mix of review, and there should be Federal law that governs how these State laws are…

I have been in the House for a very long time, and I have grown to love the dignity, the power, and the respect of this body, not for individuals but for the respect of the United States of America. On November 17, 2021, a Member of the…