WE MUST CHOOSE BETTER

On 2026-07-14, Representative Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1) delivered a floor speech titled "WE MUST CHOOSE BETTER" in the House.

WE MUST CHOOSE BETTER

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)] [House] [Page H4425] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] WE MUST CHOOSE BETTER (Ms. STANSBURY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, Ruben Ray Martinez, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and dozens of others are now dead at the hands of ICE, this administration, and detention centers across the country. Fathers, brothers, sons, daughters--dozens who have lost their lives, stolen from them at the hands of our government and the choices of this body, the choices of a House that has enabled a President to spend billions of dollars on funding ICE, choices of this body to not stop a President from breaking the law, and choices of this body for failing to act. Mr. Speaker, it is time to act and for this body to do its job and shut it down. ____________________