bobby rush for black panther. i want to thank him for his leadership and generational commitment to racial justice in america. i want to recognize the advocacy of erica taylor, was a relative of emmett hill and founder of the foundation. she was here the t last time ths bill was before this body. she is dead now. i know she's looking down and hoping we don't disappoint her. mr. president, february 2019, this body did something historic. i don't mean to be emotional, i am raw this week but i stood here with kamala and wept. we talked about the hundreds of years over centuries of efforts to pass legislation brought up and defeated time and time again in this body, about segregationists and how proud i was that in a time the partisanshipun is high in this country, we got together in one voice. one hundred senators to pass this exact same bill. there right people in this body on both sides. we were correcting a wrong of history. nobody in this body needs a lecture on lynching and how horrible it is. everybody in this body deplores racism and believes this violence is unjust. there are friends of mine here. unanimously, we passed that legislation. we made history on this floor. this is why i