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  We are fighting to ensure that the ideals upon which this country was
founded become true for everybody, that when we say liberty and justice
for all, we mean all, not just people who look like us, not just people
who worship like us, not just people who were born in this country, or
not just people who love like us, but everybody.
  We will fight for that more perfect Union every single day. If
necessary, we will die for it because too many people did.
  Mr. Speaker, I will close with this. As the President wants to
reshape what

history is taught in our schools, what history is shown in our public
spaces, and what history is shown in our museums, as he wants to ignore
what he considers to be uncomfortable or puts America in a dark and
unflattering light, we are not that perfect Union yet. There is good;
there is bad; and there is ugly. We have to embrace all of it because
it makes us who we are today, and we will never achieve that more
perfect Union if we don't understand where we are and how we got here.
  It is also important that we learn the good, the bad, and the ugly
because the bad and the ugly help us to celebrate how far we have come.
That came home to me when I took my children back to the African-
American history museum last year during spring break. As I stood in
the exhibit on the Middle Passage, which I had been in many, many
times, that time, in the midst of the chaos we find ourselves in, I
realized that somebody survived that so that I could be here in this
moment, right now, celebrating 250 years of the ideal of liberty and
justice for all, that I can fight for the reality of liberty and
justice for all.
  I am not going to let anybody take away the ability to celebrate
that. I am not going to let anybody take away my joy at coming from an
unknown member of my family. We think we know, but we don't. DNA has
allowed us to figure out maybe where they came from. We have no idea
who they are, but to come through the Middle Passage and end up with a
descendant serving in this body, that is an extraordinary American
story. You can't celebrate it if you don't celebrate how it began. You
can't fully celebrate how it began if you are not honest about how it
began.
  Mr. Speaker, as we each commemorate in our own way what 250 years of
America means, it means to me that I will fight as a member of the
Congressional Black Caucus with my now 61 colleagues, a record number,
as we face challenges to our strength through redistricting and efforts
to suppress votes. We are going to fight every day to strive for that
more perfect Union because we believe in the promise of the Declaration
of Independence.
  We swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
that created a government by, of, and for the people. We will not rest
until the ideals upon which this country was founded become true for
everyone who calls America home.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

   NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING A QUESTION OF THE
                        PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX, I
rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges
of the House.
  The form of the resolution is as follows:
  Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release
records relating to monetary settlements involving acts of sexual
harassment.
  Whereas transparency is essential for accountability in government;
  Whereas sexual harassment and unwelcome sexual advances by Members,
Delegates, Resident Commissioners, in violation of clause 9 and clause
18 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House affect the safety, dignity,
and integrity of the proceedings of the House of Representatives:
  Now, therefore, be it resolved that with respect to reviews,
investigations, or matters which the Committee on Ethics or the Office
of Congressional Workplace Rights have reviewed, conducted, or
facilitated, the Committee on Ethics and the Office of Congressional
Workplace Rights shall, not later than 60 days after the adoption of
this resolution, make publicly available a single consolidated list
that sets forth separately for each Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner the name of each Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner who was the subject of any review or investigation
involving a violation of clause 9 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, as it pertains to acts of sexual harassment,
or clause 18 of rule XXIII of the House of Representatives, or any case
involving sexual harassment or sexual abuse if it resulted in a payment
of taxpayer funds; and adjacent to each such name, the total amount of
taxpayer funds included in all settlements, payments, reimbursements,
awards, or other financial considerations paid in connection with such
matters;
  The aggregate total amount of taxpayer funds included in all
settlements, payments, reimbursements, awards, or other financial
considerations paid in connection with such reviews, investigations, or
matters involving Members, Delegates, or Resident Commissioners that
did not, in any portion of the settlement, involve sexual harassment,
sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct;
  The aggregate total amount of taxpayer funds included in all
settlements, payments, reimbursements, awards, or other financial
considerations paid in connection with such reviews, investigations, or
matters involving, in part or in full, sexual harassment, sexual abuse,
or sexual misconduct by employees of the House of Representatives; and
  The aggregate total amount of taxpayer funds included in all
settlements, payments, reimbursements, awards, or other financial
considerations paid in connection with such reviews, investigations, or
matters involving conduct by employees of the House of Representatives
that did not in any portion of the settlement involve sexual
harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct.
  That for the purposes of this resolution, any such settlement,
payment, reimbursement, award, or other financial consideration shall
be treated as involving sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual
misconduct if sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct was
any component of the matter, regardless of whether the matter also
involved, was classified as, or was resolved under another claim,
violation, or category.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Van Epps). Under rule IX, a resolution
offered from the floor by a Member other than the majority leader or
the minority leader as a question of the privileges of the House has
immediate precedence only at a time designated by the Chair within 2
legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed.
  Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the
gentleman from Kentucky will appear in the Record at this point.
  The Chair will not at this point determine whether the resolution
constitutes a question of privilege. That determination will be made at
a time designated for consideration of the resolution.