-Because it's all about the children.
I want to, before I thank all of you more fully,
thank my colleagues and acknowledge their leadership
and their presence here.
Our distinguished whip from Maryland, Steny Hoyer.
The assistant leader, Mr.
Clyburn of South Carolina, also --
Let's assume they're all distinguished.
Bobby Scott of Virginia.
Anna Eshoo of California. G.
K. Butterfield of North Carolina.
Barbara Lee of California.
Henry Cuellar of Texas.
Karen Bass of California.
Don Beyer of Virginia.
And Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania.
We all join in thanking all of you.
Many of you are our VIPs, our real VIPs,
our Volunteers in Politics,
the women and men who've mobilized in historic numbers,
who saw what this GOP Congress was doing
and refused to stand still.
Every call you made, every door you knocked,
every text you sent,
every conversation you had made the difference
between winning and losing in this election.
Thanks to you, we owned the ground.
Thanks to you -- Thanks to you,
tomorrow will be a new day in America.
Remember this feeling.
Know the power to win.
And almost all congratulations to those dynamic,
diverse, and incredible candidates
who have taken back the House for the American people.
Let us salute all of our candidates,
all of our candidates.
Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans.
It's about restoring the Constitution's checks
and balances to the Trump administration.
It's about stopping the GOP and Mitch McConnell's assault
on Medicare and Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act,
and the healthcare of 130 million Americans
living with pre-existing medical conditions.
Let's hear it more for pre -existing medical conditions.
It's about ending wealthy special-interest free reign
over Washington.
But more than anything,
it's about what a new Democratic majority
will mean in the lives of hardworking Americans.
That's what it's about.
Democrats pledge a Congress that works for the people,
for the people.
Lower the cost of healthcare
by lowering the cost of prescription drugs,
raise workers' wages with strong economic growth
by rebuilding the infrastructure of American,
clean up corruption to make Washington work
for all Americans.
We will take real, very, very strong legislative action
to legislate to negotiate
down the price control of prescription drugs
that is burdening seniors and families across America.
We will deliver a transformational investment
in America's infrastructure to create more good-paying jobs,
rebuilding our roads, bridges,
schools, water systems, broadband networks,
schools, and housing, and beyond.
We will drain the swamp of dark-interest money
in our elections because when we do,
Americans have greater confidence
in everything their Congress works on,
from healthcare to taxes to guns
to clean air and clean water for our children
when they know that the people's interests will prevail,
not the dark special interests.
In stark contrast to the GOP Congress,
the Democratic Congress will be led with transparency
and openness
so that the public can see what's happening
and how it affects them and that they can weigh in
with the members of Congress
and with the president of the United States.
We will have accountability,
and we will strive for bipartisanship,
with fairness on all sides.
We have a responsibility to find our common ground
where we can, stand our ground where we can.
But we must try.
We have a bipartisan marketplace of ideas
that makes our democracy strong.
A Democratic Congress will work for solutions
that bring us together
because we have all had enough of division.
The American people want peace.
They want results.
They want us to work for positive results
for their lives.
Our founders believed in a principle
that they knew must guide our nation.
First in our Declaration, they promised life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, but they gave us guidance,
"E pluribus unum" -- "From many, one."
The founders could never have imagined
how vast our country would become,
how many we would be,
how different we would be from each other.
But they knew we had to be one.
Unity, unity for our country.
And that today the American people have spoken
to restore that vision.
With this new Democratic majority,
we will honor the division of our founders
for a country finding -- having a legitimate debate,
but remembering that we are one country.
We'll honor the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform
and their families, who have made us the land of the free
and the home of the brave
to build a better future worthy of their sacrifice.
And we must honor and respect the aspirations of our children.
Elections are about the future
and what we do for our children's future.
So, thank you all for making the future better
for all of America's children.
God bless you!
God bless America!
Thank you all very much.
Thank you.