U.S. State Attorneys General

And now the cause of justice is in your hands. And when I say your hands, I mean the hands of the people of the United States.

The momentum and the emotion and the feeling and the sense of possibility that people may feel because of this verdict should be channeled into a national policing reform bill that`s pending before the Senate right now, the George Floyd…

The people who stopped and raised their voices on May 25th, 2021, old, young, men and women, black and white, a man from the neighborhood just walking to get a drink, a child going to buy a snack with her cousin, an off duty firefighter on…

They stopped and raised their voices, and they even challenged authority because they saw his humanity. They stopped and they raise their voices because they knew that what they were seeing was wrong.

I would not call today’s verdict justice however, because justice implies true restoration, but it is accountability which is the first step towards justice. We need true justice. That’s not one case. That is a social transformation that…

If the country had completely united after January 6th and said wow we have a real problem here, we have to do everything we possibly can to pass the best laws with him federally to combat domestic terrorism which is an issue.

Not one of them would go before the committee to indicate that domestic terrorism was even a problem in the United States.

I am for these national kinds of standards that will encourage the private sector to step up.

The National Climate Assessment released in 2018 estimated $500 billion in lost economic output annually by the year 2100 due to global warming at or above two degrees Celsius.

President Biden has laid out his vision of how investing in new clean energy technologies will help build the middle class in America and expand economic opportunity.

That is the question.

Yes, I think if we are looking ahead, we are going to be looking to non-fossil fuel kinds of energy sources.

We know that we need to do more with regard to domestic and gender-based violence.

President Biden has made it very clear. This is a public health crisis, and we have to address it.

Gun violence. We all know, what is it, about 40,000 Americans die from firearm injuries as the result of our lack of action on this every year.

The American Rescue Plan that we passed a couple weeks ago had funding for 100,000 new public health workers.

I have no question that Roe v. Wade is an important legal precedent that we must abide by that makes sure that women have access to the healthcare that they need.

I believe that Roe v. Wade has given women the opportunity to exercise their rights under the Constitution and our laws to provide for their health.

I mean, I am even impressed at what President Biden has accomplished when it comes to the vaccine.

When you have got a President who is willing to commit over $10,000,000,000 in his fiscal budget to start tackling opioids, you know he is serious.

I am all about making sure we treat everyone fairly.

So sometimes it is actually more efficient and cost effective to try to help make that transportation work.

We have authority to provide for transportation resources to make sure that these children are united.

We have to remember that our mission is separate and apart and different from the Department of Homeland Security's mission.