Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.