How humbled I am to be on the floor of the House with fellow Americans who can speak eloquently about the history that is so deeply seated in my history and the history of so many Americans. How honored I am, Congresswoman Scanlon, that…

I thank the gentlewoman from New York for her courtesies. Mr. Speaker, it has been a long journey. It has not been yesterday, the day before, or last month, or a few years before. One could argue that it has been 12 years on this floor of…

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves…

It is not often when you can stand on the floor of the House and use the terminology: I feel full or filled. It is a terminology that many of us are familiar with in the religious communities of our Black American tradition. But after a…

I thank Congresswoman Waters for yielding, and I thank the gentlewoman and the ranking member for their leadership. I ask that we think carefully as this legislation is debated and really reflect on January 6, where each of us probably has…

She would have been part of it at a later time, but that trail, since we know for sure there were no other ways of moving, she had to walk along that semi-developed trail of little cities from Galveston--walk along, drive along, in…

I rise this evening for the Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hour that deals with, of course, Juneteenth, a very special time that I am delighted--with the leadership of our chair, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty; and, of course, my…

It is my privilege to yield to a gentleman with a storied and layered history entrenched in one of the States that suffered the extension of slavery and faces its challenges today, of which this gentleman has been in the mix and in the gap…

As I get ready to yield to the distinguished gentleman from Las Vegas, Nevada, I want to make sure he lets me know my pronunciation is correct, it is a very sensitive question. But as the gentleman from Georgia leaves, let me at least…

May I ask the Speaker the time remaining, please. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Texas has 22 minutes remaining.

I rise as a fellow Texan to offer my deepest sympathy to my fellow congressional colleagues in the Austin area, to the local officials, and to all of those who suffered the brutality of the mass shooting in the last couple of days--14--and…

I say to the gentleman from New York, it is an esteemed pleasure to be able to draw upon both his knowledge and scholarship--might I stand on his shoulders--an activist Federal Government. For some reason, as we face these trials and…