Mark Pocan: “Thank you, Representative Jeffries, and thank you for articulating, I guess, what I have been feeling also for the last…”

“Thank you, Representative Jeffries, and thank you for articulating, I guess, what I have been feeling also for the last year, my lack of hostage-taking skills. I certainly learned some in the last 12 months serving in this body. It is now my pleasure to yield some time to my colleague from California, Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, who is the first Mexican American woman to be elected to Congress. She cofounded the bipartisan Congressional Study Committee on Public Health. She became the first woman to chair the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and serves as the chairwoman of their health care task force.”