As a senior member of this body and an original cosponsor of the legislation, I rise in strong and enthusiastic support of the rule governing debate of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, and the underlying bill. H.R. 2, the Moving Forward…

I thank the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee for his dynamic leadership. Let me indicate that I stand here today in the midst of a catastrophic pandemic of COVID-19 in the State of Texas and in my congressional district in…

As a senior member of the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Budget Committees, I rise in strong and enthusiastic support of H.R. 7301, the ``Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020,'' which addresses the needs of renters and…

I stand here on the floor of the House wearing my mask in order to indicate not only to my own hometown, Houston, Texas, Harris County, and the State of Texas, but also to the Nation, that we are in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that is…

I want to give all acknowledgment to the outstanding gentlewoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton. President Washington said: ``The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.'' Nothing in the Constitution says that we cannot make the…

This is a somber moment, and I thank the gentleman from Florida for not only his passion but his recognition that America should never forget. I thank the Speaker pro tempore for letting us remember all the faces and families and loved…

As a senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, as an original cosponsor of the legislation, and the author of several of its key legislative provisions, I rise in strong and enthusiastic support of H.R. 7120, the George Floyd…

My friends on the other side of the aisle are consistently being persistent in the language of why process for them is more important than saving lives. I answer the question with a little book called the Constitution of the United States…

I say to my community in Houston that I know that they are celebrating the idea that the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has passed. I look forward to going home and engaging with them and indicating that we are re-imagining police…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the question: Where is the party of Lincoln? Where is the moment of courage when the slaves were freed in that moment in 1863? This Senate bill, the…

It baffles me that the President of the United States and his staff can't take a deep dive into this legislation and realize that America just cannot continue on the pathway that it is.

Black lives do matter, and the President has to, in order to be an effective leader and healer and to be able to look at legislation that can be both the front end and the back end.