U.S. State Attorneys General

I think Tish James has been masterful in really laying out how executives have essentially used the NRA as a slush fund.

But I want to and will seek collaboration, coalition-building, solution-oriented approaches as much as possible to move our states where we need to be.

I would say to the AAPI community: I see you, I value you, I am you.

The summer of George Floyd, the racial justice reckoning really continued to motivate California to do what we`ve already been doing, which is to pursue criminal justice reform, infuse our system, which is broken in so many places, with…

I want to work with them. I want to work in concert to make our criminal justice system more fair, more just, and more safe.

And I will stand by your side and fight with you to make sure that justice is done, that victims are given the support and healing that they need, that perpetrators are held accountable and that we improve our systems to prevent hate…

Police accountability is an important part of it, not the only part of it but an important part of it and AB1506 will help create the perception and the reality of police accountability.

I think this was poll tested, and that they actually looked at this and this is a strategy to get Trump supporters out in 2022 in Michigan, is to demonize this way.

But it's like saying, oh, I didn't know that calling the governor, a dictator over and over would incite people to want to kidnap and murder her.

We have a lot -- a lot of work to do and we were facing basically mindless obstruction from the Republicans.

I know that Joe Manchin wants to get things done for the American people.

He won’t be able to move on any of those areas unless the Republicans support us.

Mitch McConnell is very concerned about us doing filibuster reform, because he knows that there that Democrats will put forth bills that they would want to filibusters such as voting rights.

We know that we have a lot more to do.

Equity in transportation requires transit to be a core component of big service transportation projects.

I want to thank you for your commitment to a big and bold approach to our Nation's infrastructure.

I hope that you can provide this Committee with some approaches that we can take, funding or programmatic, to deal with the backlog and the other issues you just mentioned.

Membership alone serves to undermine the morale, the readiness, and unit cohesion, if not even the discipline of that unit.

At the end of the day, being able to acknowledge that to say it out loud, to call out lies when there are occurring is critically important in this conversation as well.

We must always balance the rights of individuals with matters of security and safety.

We need bipartisan and aggressive solutions to the problem of domestic terrorism because acts of domestic terrorism don't just harm the target of the crime, they threaten the very foundations of our democracy.

Labels matter. Prosecuting hate-motivated attackers as terrorists sends the clear message that the threat of extremism is just as significant when it is based on domestic, political, religious, or social ideologies as it is when it is…

Domestic terrorists seek to send a message of fear to intimidate and coerce the conduct of government, all government.

At the end of the day, what we want to do is ensure that, in fact, these actions do have consequences and that we will not kowtow to the extremism that we have seen taking place over the course of these last few months especially in what…