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democratic congressman david cicilline delivers his final house floor speech ahead of his resignation next week. first elected in 2010, he is moving on to become president and ceo of the rhode island foundation. some members came to the floor to pay tribute to his service in the house. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to address the house for the last time as a member of this esteemed by the. it has been the honor of my life to represent the people of the first congressional district of rhode island and congress. at the end of this month, i will be stepping down from this position to become president and ceo of the rhode island foundation, one of the nation's oldest and largest community foundations. i am excited to begin this extraordinary opportunity to build upon the work i have been meeting in congress and continue to make a meaningful impact on the lives of rhode islanders. i would not be standing here today if not for the people of rhode island to place their faith and trust in me to represent them in congress.

every day over the past 12 years i put my heart and soul into the work we do here to improve the lives of every rhode island or and protect our great democracy. i want to thank my current and former staff, especially my longtime chief of staff, my district director. i cannot thank you and the rest of our staff enough for all of your hard work and dedication over the years. i am particularly grateful for two people who have worked for me for more than two decades. rita and roger. i have been blessed with the most committed, passionate and talented staff on the hill to of established a reputation for our office of excellence and effectiveness. you allowed me to take the lead on many more things than anyone thought possible. every day you showed up and gave it your all to help the people of rhode island, even when your own personal safety was at risk. i am so proud of everything we have accomplished together, and

i know that everyone on my step four go on to bigger and better things. and to my friends and colleagues, it has been an incredible honor to work with you day in and day out to address the challenges facing our country read it has been a special honor to serve alongside my colleagues in the rhode island delegation. while our delegation may be small, we never let that stop us from delivering big for our state. your collaboration and friendship it meant the world to me. one of the hardest parts of leaving this job is leaving behind so many dear, dear friends. hakeem, joe, terry, jamie, camilla, robert, fredricka, bill, mark, lucy, veronica, maxine, melanie, eric, deborah, grace, and the list goes on. we have been through so much over the years, and i will always cherish our friendship.

i know we will continue to stay close even after i leave washington d.c. let me say a special word about two colleagues, speaker emeritus nancy pelosi and congressman delauro. i will forever remain in awe of her genius and extraordinary leadership and all of the kindness she has shown me over the years. she has been a powerful ally in all of my biggest priorities during my time in congress. thank you, speaker pelosi, for the honor of serving as an impeachment manager to defend our democracy. and to rosa delauro, you have been my mentor, my friend and inspiration. you have set a standard for all of us of hard work and deep commitment on every important issue facing our country. at every single moment i have turned to you for advice or support or help of any kind, you

have been there. you have been like a sister to me, and our friendship will endure forever. in fact, the only time you have ever been wrong is your claim that pizza is better than pizza in providence. we modestly called ourselves the noble nine. we were one of the smallest freshman classes ever. the country and rhode island were just starting to recover from the great recession, and democrats had lost the majority by 60 seats. let's say it was not the easiest time to be a freshman democratic member of congress. like most americans i was convinced this place was completely broken, but i was determined to change that. i came to washington d.c. with my eyes wide open. i knew there were members of congress who were only interested in being combative and making headlines. then i realized that there were some members interested in working together to get things done for the country. do not get me wrong, at times it

can be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to work with people who may agree with you on one issue and completely disagree with you on everything else, including how you live your own life. however, i think it is important for the american people to know there are a lot of people in congress who put their country over party and work hard every day to improve the lives of their constituents and all-americans. my first years in washington i immerse myself in my committee assignments, small business, budget and foreign affairs. i focused on trying to bring back manufacturing jobs and help rhode island to get back on its feet after the recession. in 2014, i left the budget committee and moved over to the house committee on judiciary to try to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing our country, including immigration, gun safety, lgbtq+ equality and campaign-finance and criminal justice reform. convinced me to take the ranking member spot on the house antitrust subcommittee which at the time to be honest wasn't exactly the first choice for most committee members.

chairman nadler gave me great advice. he told me sometimes you should take an assignment to stretch your mind and learn something new. and i took that to heart. from that moment forward i learned all i could about antitrust and i quickly realized just how important antitrust policies were in promoting competition and innovation, to protect workers, small business, and our economy by providing consumers with more choices. as ranking member, i developed a great working relationship with chairman sensenbrenner. over dinner we would discuss our work on the subcommittee and more importantly, got to know each other better outside the capitol and without the partisan noise. it showed me that washington wasn't completely broken and that you could get things done by developing productive working relationships, and even friendships with colleagues on the other side of the aisle. in 2016, i was elected by my colleagues to serve in house democratic leadership as co-chair of the democratic policy and communications committee, which was responsible for developing the long-term messaging for house democrats. working alongside now minority

leader hakeem jeffries and former member cheri bustos, we developed the for the people agenda that helped bring democrats back into the majority in 2018. it was during that time that i developed a real friendship and deep respect for the remarkable talent of hakeem jeffries who i know will be the next speaker of the house. even though i was responsible for the democratic messaging in the house, i stayed committed to finding republican colleagues i could work with to get things done for the american people. and that's what i did on some of the biggest issues facing our country. from protecting our democracy to gun safety to lgbtq+ equality and antitrust reform. i developed strong working relationships and friendships with some of my republican colleagues including ken buck and brian fitzpatrick as we found common ground on important issues. even when we didn't see eye to eye on other issues and prior priorities, as chair of the antitrust subcommittee i

launched a 16-month bipartisan investigation into the digital marketplace. in partnership with ranking member buck, we examined big tech's anti-competitive practices, documenting them in a 450-page report that informed our bipartisan six-bill package to rein in big tech and finally modernize our antitrust laws. for decades, our government failed to enforce antitrust laws for fear of stifling innovation which led to problems we see in the industry today. we have antitrust laws. and thankful for the friendship and dedication ken buck brought to this and none of this would have been possible without my chief counsel. while democrats held the majority i tried to help through the equality act.

this would end discrimination against lgbtq in housing, credit and public accommodations is the most extensive civil rights legislation to pass the house since the 1964 civil rights act. it passed out of the house in large part because of the large with bipartisan support and only a matter of time before it becomes law especially with my dear friend mark takano. i will be forever grateful for the early and really critical support of the late john lewis in this effort. on the foreign affairs committee i worked with gregory meeks and worked with republicans and mike mccaul, and ann wagner to to promote diplomacy throughout the world. while we established the pelosi caucus in ukraine. i also led numerous efforts to

promote international human rights and we passed a bill to prevent gross human rights violations and in january, president biden signed the victims for justice. legislation i authored with republican congresswoman victoria sparks. on the judiciary committee, i was able to continue the work i started on gun violence, prevention as mayor of providence and mayor against illegal guns. following the pulse nightclub shooting, i worked with katherine clark and congresswoman kelly and john larson to demand that the republican majority to address gun violence.

i sponsored numerous bills to outlaw ghost guns and ban bump stocks and violent and proving the background and once again i was able to find colleagues to work on some of these bills and the assault weapons ban. last summer, we passed legislation to reinstate the assault weapons ban with bipartisan votes in the house for the first time in 30 years. even during the most difficult times, january 6, two impeachments and global pandemic i never lost faith. it is not always pretty and easy and come out stronger on the other side who serve in this place and fight to preserve it every day. i still believe in our democracy and the ability of congress to tackle big challenges and

improve the lives of all americans. we did it with the american rescue plan and the respect for marriage act and the bipartisan safer communities act. i leave this body knowing i left it all on the field and did everything i could to keep americans safe from gun violence and end illegal discrimination and shine a bright light on the antitrust issues posed by big tech. i woke up and came to work of improving the lives of rhode islanders and that has motivated me for 28 years in public office and i have done my very best to deliver. i may be leaving congress, i will never stop for what i believe in and proud of the work we have done together. i have taken this final opportunity to speak on the floor of this historic institution to highlight of what we have been able to achieve when we let understanding,

integrity and willingness to find common ground to take. i come from a state whose motto is hope. i leave with hope for our democracy and for this institution and for centuries, the united states has been the hope of the world. we are the nation where freedom, equality and unity has made us a beacon of hope. for generations, men and women have fought to give their blood, sweat and lives for it. yet today, there are forces working to undermine our democratic institutions and shared values. this institution has the sacred responsibility to honor the sacrifices made by so many and the way we treat one another as colleagues and let truth not fear and reason not extremism and respect for all.

our union to thy and our democracy to withstand depends on the resolve of this institution, those who serve in this hall and the voice in this government to keep the hope alive. with that, i once again extend my deepest gratitude to the people of rhode island giving me the greatest of my life and represent you for the past 12 years here in the congress of the united states and may god bless you and protect you. may the spirit of hope forever endure this institution and the people who serve it. and may god bless the united states of america. and thank you, mr. speaker, for the final time in this chamber, i yield to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. magaziner. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 9, 2023, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. magaziner is recognized for

the remainder of the hour. mr. magaziner: there are a number of members who have come to express their gratitude to congressman cicilline and i yield to speaker pelosi. ms. pelosi: i thank you for bringing us together so we can pay our respects and gratitude to a great congressman from rhode island, your colleague from rhode island, david cicilline. on a personal note listening to his comments, he and congresswoman delauro have a competition. they don't know people come to san francisco to learn how to make pizza. and pride we take and the knowledge we have about food. in event, mr. cicilline, thank you for your great leadership in

this congress. you have been a champion on policy issues. you have spelled them out there. i never forget that you joined john lewis and katherine clark and john larson and others to have a sit-in on the floor of the house. mr. speaker, they did not tell us they were doing this, leadership would have said, you are not allowed to do this. i mean, they could anticipate i might say that. so they just protected the leadership from having to make that statement and launch their sit-in on the floor of the house. it was very successful because coincidence we planned a rally about gun violence prevention and they were planning a sit-in. mr. takano spread the word through his telephone even though the republicans turned

out the lights in the house and nobody could see what was going on here, he spread the word through his telephone and it became a sit-in heard around the world. thank you, mr. takano, john lewis, and thank you, mr. cicilline. you heard him talk about the issues and knowledge he has about them and judgment about prioritizing. the legislative strategic thinking of trying in the most possible way to be bipartisan and to be transparent and to be accountable. representative is a job title mr. sighs linney has and it's his job title for representing the people of rhode island. he loved his district and loves his state, he loves his country. and representative coming to the floor and speaking for those people every time he did, he did

so with great pride. again, he is a man of many issues, and many talents. he has many ethnicity. when i came, i thought we have more italian-americans and see him at the italian-american. when i went to jewish americans, he was there. and lgbtq community, he was a man of all ethnicities and that made him a great representative for our entire country across the board. for many members who had time to sing the praisees of this great man, i have many stories i could tell about how in his role as head of our -- leader in our communication, he was made our message more effective, how he

gave guidance to members, how he mentored others after they came here. i gave him some points for being the mayor of providence. when you are a mayor, you have to get things done. and he brought that administrative skill to a legislative job, and we all benefited from it. i thank mr. magaziner for yielding some time. we have a lot to say about david cicilline and will take other opportunities. not only thank you for your leadership, mr. cicilline, for your leadership and the rest but the beautiful presentation you made about our country this evening, your patriotism, your service, your call to duty and your being so effective in doing all of the above. thank you, mr. cicilline, i yield back. mr. magaziner: at this time, if

she would like, i will yield to ms. delauro. ms. delauro: this really is a bittersweet moment and i'm so honored to have the opportunity to be here tonight with colleagues, with the former speaker, to say a few words to honor our colleague, a dear, dear friend, congressman david cicilline and embarks on a new challenge, president and c.e.o. of the rhode island foundation, one of the oldest in the nation, but it is just more than pizza which separates congressman cicilline and myself, there really are more italians in

connecticut than there are in rhode island. i know about san francisco, but it's connecticut and rhode island. our numbers in connecticut are larger than your numbers any day of the year. so, and you know, congress is a wonderful, wonderful institution and a place to be and it really has to do with the people that you serve with. and you know, you make a lot of acquaintancees in the house of representatives, but you can count your friends, probably on one hand, maybe two. and david cicilline has been my friend. and that's the friendship that occurs in the good times and in

the bad times and those up moments and the down moments when you know that someone always has your back and there for you know matter what. and david cicilline has always been there for me no matter what. we had a bond. i kept saying cicilline and he would say cicilline. my privilege to serve with david that he joined more than a decade ago, 12 years ago. he has distinguished himself as a fighter for rhode island, a champion for working middle-class families. he doesn't shy away from a fight and knows how to get things done. a trailblazer for lgbtq rights, a first openly gay mayor and marriage equality, gun safety,

antitrust, bringing back manufacturing jobs, taking on the tech industry. his passion and commitment to these causes made him one of the most effective legislators in the house. he spoke himself about his fight to prevent gun violence which is at his core. founding member of the bipartisan, mayors against illegal guns led the sit-in on the house floor in 2016 with iconic john lewis and katherine clark, my colleague from connecticut, john larson and we did sit in the well here. and thewe didn't tell the leadep because they would have said no. but we were convince we had had to do it and to be here. and that was to protest inaction on gun violence. like john lewis, he's not afraid to get into good trouble when fighting for what is right. he responded to the ongoing

epidemic of gun violence in this country by authoring the assault weapons ban when i was there when people told them not to do it. they said, don't do it. he said, i am going to do it. and that passed in the house last july. not an easy vote for some. but he knew that it was the right thing to do. and he fought like hell to make it happen. tyler's champion and fight for justice and equality, fault to enact the equality act, the conscience of the house on this issue, led the bipartisan passage for the respect for marriage act. federally recognizing same-sex and interracial marriage, which president biden signed into law last august. monumental achievement in advancing civil rights. he's been there next to me, we have fought together on so many issues for women and families. protecting the right to choose, push for pay equity, passing the paycheck fairness act. passing a child tax credit, passionate and eloquent voice

standing up for middle class and working families across the board. and a dedicated ally to do the work and be there with you in the trenches, not afraid to be in the trenches. you know, david cicilline may be leaving the house of representatives, but his work continues, his legacy continues. i'm so sad, really, to see him go. i am proud that he will now have an opportunity to build, to expand on so many issues, the work that he did here in the congress. and further improve the lives of all rhode islanders. i know he will continue to be a fearless advocate for the people of rhode island and for the causes he believes in and the causes he believes are right. david cicilline knows why he became a member of the congress. he understands the power of this institution.

its ability to transform people's lives. he didn't come like some these days to dismantle the institution, but to push the edge of that envelope which could help to make a difference for the people in this country. we will wish him, my brother, what an honor it has been for me to serve with you. and more importantly, what a pleasure it has been for me to call you my friend and my brother. and next time i'm in providence, and i hope that will be soon, we can get a drink at clemen tine's cocktail bar -- clementine's cocktail bar and plan some good trouble together. god bless you, my dear and wonderful friend. without doubt, i will miss you. thank you and i would thank mr. magaziner for recognizing me. mr. magaziner: thank you. mr. speaker, how much time do we have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 33 minutes.

mr. magaziner: ok. at this time i'll yield to mr. takano. mr. takano: thank you, mr. magaziner, for yielding. it is a great honor for me to follow the speaker emeritus and ms. delauro in offering my words of farewell, my words of wishing that he weren't leaving to my good friend, david cicilline of rhode island. and i thank mr. pocan for allowing me to go first. that was very gracious to allow me this honor to follow two such great members who felt compelled to come to the floor, to make sure that our friend, david cicilline, knew how well he is thought of, what regard that we hold him, what esteem we hold him in.

i wish i could recount or -- i don't really wish, but to recount everything and to touch upon all that david has brought forward into this institution, the ideas that he has carried through his legislation could really fill up this whole hour and that would be unfair to the other members who also wish to come and bid him an honorable farewell. but let me focus on just a few things. one, it was a great honor to be on this floor the day after the pulse night club shootings and to see david, along with the iconic john lewis and katherine clark, take action to not just be frustrated, but to get into some good trouble. and it was my in the moment sort

of thinking that this needed to be amplified this moment needed to be amplified so. i took out my cell foal -- amplified. so i took out my cell phone and started to stream the events when all the television cameras were turned off, the lights were turned out. and it was an entire night of all of the members of the democratic caucus expressing their frustration at not doing more than thoughts and prayers. and you know, it happened at the pulse night club shooting, it touched the lgbtq community which david and i are members of, and i watched with great admiration at how david made sure to work with the congressional black caucus, to touch that sacred 1964 civil rights act and to work with them

to craft a bill that would add the words gender identity and sexual orientation to that sacred document which protects, you know, so many classes of people in the united states, and for which we still need to accomplish this act and, david, i am honored and touched that you will entrust this, the equality act, in my hands to get it across the line and you can be sure that you will be on the invitation list in the front row when the president of the united states signs that bill into law. and let me say, as a final sort of reflection, speaker, former speaker pelosi has always talked about this being the greatest intellectual resource, the members, that is, the members of this congress are a huge intellectual resource.

let me say that no more is that exemplified than in the hearings that david cicilline held on anti-trust. anti-trust is a complicated, dense topic. he spent months, actually years, pouring through the -- poring through the academic research and the views of law professors to understand anti-trust law in our country. and he brought forward as witnesses, you know, the heads of facebook and google, and contended with great economic forces in our country. but, you know, all in the service of making sure that average americans have a chance at privacy, have a chance for competition, that not all the resources will get sucked up and not all the advantages are held by big corporate entities.

that intellectual resource, that groundwork that he laid i'm confident is going to work itself through this congress. because both sides care, both democrats and republicans care about this issue. and it was overshadowed by a much more attention-grabbing figure and it was frustrating to me that more of america, more of the media could not pay attention to the important work that david cicilline was doing. mr. speaker, i could go on for a lot longer but that would be unfair to all the others here who want to pay their respects to a tremendous member of congress of consequence. so i yield back my time and farewell, i wanted to say, david. thank you for your service and i'll miss new this body -- miss you in this body. plagz magazine thank you. at this -- mr. magaziner: thank you.

at this time i yield to mr. neguse. mr. neguse: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, it is a great privilege to be able to be here today to salute my friend, a fine man, a good man, and someone who has served our country so admirably over the course of these last 12 years in david cicilline. there's a quote from president john adams that i want to share. our second president, who once said, i fear that in every assembly members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. by meanness, not greatness. by ignorance, not learning. and by contracted hearts, and not large souls. there are many places in our country in which his fears ring true today. but one of the places where it does not is in rhode island, where for the better part of the last decade, the people of rhode island could rest easy knowing they had elected a leader who would serve them admirably.

a leader whose common sense was on full display as a member of the house leadership team. i can remember very early in my tenure in congress, five years ago, learning from and being mentored by david cicilline as he chaired the house democratic policy communications committee, always willing to help a new member navigate the experience of serving in congress. his greatness was on full display during the course of the investigation that he led as chairman of the anti-trust subcommittee. as his vice chair during that subcommittee investigation, i can tell you, mr. speaker, firsthand just how hard he worked day in and day out. the entrenched interests and the concentrated power that he fought against day after day to ensure that that investigation would be done and that ultimately the american public would benefit from it. and of course his learning was on full display during the

course of both presidential impeachments over the course of the last four years, but in particular during the second impeachment, when mr. cicilline and i stood together on the floor of the united states senate. when his fidelity to the constitution and his role in defending our democracy was on full display to millions of americans. he has been an effective representative for the people of rhode island. he's been a tireless leader here in the united states congress, he's done his country and his state a great service and he's been a dear friend, a dear, dear friend to so many of us in the congress. in the last five years, i've been here on the floor for quite a few departing speeches for members, people i considered friends. i have yet to come to one in which the chairwoman of the appropriations committee, the chairman of the veterans' affairs committee, the chairman of the equality caucus, the speaker of the house, the former

chairman of our caucus have all gathered, exempt for today. and it's a reflection of just how special david cicilline is, the reach and breadth of the support and friendships that he developed within the house democratic caucus, which i believe will last long after he's left this hallowed chamber. so to david, to mr. cicilline, the gentleman from rhode island, we say thank you for your service to our country, we will miss you, we look forward to seeing you again. i yield back. mr. magaziner: thank you. at this time i yield to mr. pocan. mr. pocan: i'd like to thank the gentleman from rhode island and i'd like to thank david cicilline for his great work in congress. he's been an lgbtq+ leader. he's been a progressive champion. he's been a judiciary committee leader. and he's been a mentor to many of us in congress, including myself. and i'm going to really miss

having him and his wisdom in congress. i think a lot of people are going to miss him across the country. if you care about gun violence, you're going to miss david cicilline. he was the author of the assault weapon ban, so important as we have shooting after shooting after shooting with an ar-15. his bill would help address that in this country. but it's not just that. it's also he has gone above and beyond. every time in this chamber when there's a moment of silence and no moment of action around gun violence, it's so disheartening for everyone around the country. but that day that's been talked about, when he was one of the organizers sitting down and taking over this chamber, to have a moment of action is one of the few times in fact the only time -- times, in fact the only time that i saw that in my 10 1/2 years in congress. if you care about progressive values, you're going to miss david cicilline. he was a progressive caucus leader and as chair of the dpcc he led on our values and articulating values for democrats and he did an amazing

job in doing that. if you care about democracy, you're going to miss david cicilline. being an impeachment manager is a huge undertaking and you had, trust me, all kinds of people around the country who disagreed with you saying all sorts of interesting things. david did an amazing job in standing up for this country and for everyone who cares about our democracy in that role. if you care about consumer issues, you're going to issues, and tech issues and he was fighting of consumers so we could have more cost of goods and didn't have monopolies running everything. and if you care about equality and lgbtq rights, you are going to miss david cicilline, he was the chair of our equality caucus and lead author of the equality

bill. but most importantly, daiftd has been the role model for lgbtq youth across the country. it's not easy even in 2023 to be out and gay especially in this body that people are attacking transkids. david has been our senior leader and we so respect all the work he has done. i'm going to miss his style and commonsense vision and i'm going to miss his friendship. david cicilline has been a great mentor to us. we know he is going to be great back in rhode island. and, too, am going to get to clementine's. i yield to mr. larson.

mr. larson: i join my colleagues and i was fortunate to hear the deaness of our delegation speak earlier and i'm not good at good-byes but far better at hellos. david, you are such an engaging and compassion nature and caring individual, reflected in the legislation that you have put forward, we flected in the way that you have represented the people of rhode island. how you engage yourself on this floor with individual members. what you have done time and again leading with your heart,

but using that great brain power and strategy to get things done on behalf of people. i know it's been mentioned about our beloved colleague, john lewis, and staging that sit-in here on the floor, but i believe that that is something that everyone who was serving here at the time will never forget. and again, it was your leadership, it was your compassion, your heart. you're a man amongst men who demonstrates that daily. i love and respect and -- you, i will miss you but not for long,

because we will always be together. and by now, i think just about the whole congress is going for a drink at clems. thank you for your service and commitment to the people of rhode island. the country is better off because david cicilline has served and represented the people of rhode island here in the people's chamber. i yield back. >> i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on the topic of this legislative order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> i rise to celebrate the congressional career of one of rhode island's finest public servants and my good friend congressman david sill linney, who will be retiring. a born and raised from a proud

italian and jewish family and served as a being elected the first openly gay mayor. david restored ethics and vitality to city hall and represented the first 1 congressional district. david has served the people of rhode island with honor, courage and decency in the house of representatives. through his work in the house judiciary committee, representative cicilline has become a nationally recognized leader to prevent gun violence and enforce antitrust laws. david led the charge for lgbtq-plus rights. and he served on chairing the africa and served multiple leadership reels in the house

democratic caucus and our nation will be indebtedded in holding former president trump accountable for leading the deadly assault on the capitol. he co-wrote the articles of impeachment and served as an house impeachment manager. i will miss david's energy and intellect. but his service is not complete. in june, he will be be president and c.e.o. rhode island foundation one of the nation's foremost foundations. i join all of rhode island in thanking you

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