My community, the LGBTQ community, is constantly under attack in this Congress.

We have to pass the Equality Act to explicitly protect LGBTQ people against discrimination.

We have to pass the Equality Act to explicitly protect LGBTQ people against discrimination.

It is about basic humanity, people being able to live their lives and work in peace.

I just think it is shocking that somebody on this Committee would not only attack juries, but we are the Judiciary Committee after all.

We are here today because of the Republican Party's unrelenting effort to get Donald Trump back into office, no matter the facts and no matter the law. For over 1 year, Judiciary Committee Republican colleagues have desperately sought…

It is my job, and it is all of our jobs, to represent constituents. I thought that is what we are all here for. I implore my Republican colleagues to stop putting the interests of only one man above the interests of Americans. The truth…

It's absurd that we sit here.

We should get the hell out of the way, honestly.

Vermonters know climate change is real, and we are feeling it in all our downtowns because the water runs downward.

We're wasting time, once again, in this Committee.

It's absurd that we're even having this conversation.

It is maddening to witness so many of my colleagues seeming to care more about propping up and protecting a convicted felon than protecting the rule of law.

Why do they protect him? The him in question is, of course, the former President.

We recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which from my count, not a single Republican voted for that.

My colleague, the gentlewoman from Connecticut, has been a champion on this issue, and I am so glad she has convened us here tonight. Over 41 million Americans depend on nutrition assistance to feed themselves and their families, and SNAP…

The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't guarantee access to health care.

I can't have a conversation about this without naming that we should have Medicare for all.

Many of my colleagues have tried to repeal Obamacare between 60 and 70 times.

Tonight, my colleagues and I are here on the floor of the U.S. Congress to talk about the mental health crisis we are seeing across the country in each of our congressional districts. I know this issue can be incredibly hard for many…

We are in the midst of a nationwide mental health crisis, and it is critically important for all of us in positions of power to do the work of passing legislation and funding programs that will meet the needs of our constituents. It is…

We have heard from Members from many different parts of the country, from Vermont to Michigan to California to Hawaii. As I said before, we must prioritize human connection and healthy relationships, and we have to craft policy and make…

We literally do not have the workers to fill the current jobs, let alone growth that industry wants to have in Vermont.

my colleagues on the other side of the aisle often overpromise and underdeliver.

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