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It is important that Congress address more than just NIL in any potential legislation.

I was deeply disappointed that our colleagues on the other side were unwilling to even have a real debate about this, about the wage gap and the Paycheck Fairness Act.

This disparity will cause long-term damage and have consequences beyond our economy, spilling into housing, instability, food insecurity, and the well-being of our children.

We should ask what these numbers look like for women. And are these jobs providing equitable and liveable wages for women.

The issue is, because of the gender wage gap the likelihood that the female applicant's salary history will show a history of much lower earnings than the male applicant is simply why requesting previous salary histories has a disparate…

A Bureau of Labor statistics study found that working women, particularly women of color, have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

So being underpaid rather than skill and experience becomes a basis for being underpaid, and underpaid in the past, underpaid in the future.

When it comes to the right to vote, especially here in the south, Lawrence, I’m always worried about what Republicans might do.

I am continuing to practice in the art of what is possible and making sure that we don’t give up on H.R. 1 in this conversation around H.R. 4 and the John Lewis Voting Rights act.

It`s a bioweapon. We need to be very clear about what was the intent of COVID-19 and these viruses that they experiment with like some sort of Dr. Frankenstein experiments.

Georgia Congressman Margaret Taylor Greene who has been running around claiming Donald Trump is still the president.

If indeed this is the problem that exists, and that is, they're trying to escape violence in some of these areas in Central America and we're sending them to cities that actually have a higher violence rate, you know, how can you say…

For instance, Baltimore and St. Louis, where they've defunded the police, both have significantly higher violence rates.

This is inter-generational theft that we are talking about here.

I look at them and I think, oh my gosh, what are we doing to you? What are we doing to you all?

The budget makes growth enhancing investments that we need right now.

Right now, 39 percent of all individuals experiencing homelessness in our country are Black, even though Black individuals only make up 12 percent of the total U.S. population.

One of my priorities in Congress is closing the racial wealth gap, in my district and across the country.