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The younger generation has to help lead in the fight to combat climate change, protect women's rights, and build an economy that works for all, not just the few.
We need you to stand up to fight for justice. To fight for economic justice, social justice and racial justice.
The future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.
[Y]ou can show all the ‘fact’ sheets you want, but this is about practical implications. If you changed your name, you will not be able to vote unless you jump through excessive hoops that require time, money, and travel if you live in a…
Let me cut to the chase, and I will try to be brief here. We hear a lot of talk on the floor of the Senate about patriotism, about love of country, about how we all have to work together for the common good. It would seem to me that when…
I thank Chairman Hill for yielding me time to discuss this important issue. Mr. Speaker, it is no secret that the sky was the limit when it came to regulations for the last administration. Our Nation endured 4 years of costly new rules…
In the year 2025, in the richest country in the history of world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages.
There’s some kind of mythology out there that the only people working for minimum wage are kids trying to make some extra spending money … and that is not the case.
We need the Republicans to understand that workers in their states can’t make it on $7.25 and $10 an hour, they have got to join us and help us raise that minimum wage to $17 an hour.
We’ve got to stand up and rally the American people to fight against this horrendous agenda.
When you talk about people losing faith in the American political system, it’s justified.
If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions … what do you think he’s going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?
That is not what people fought and died to create in this country.
What he wants is power and wealth for his oligarch friends. So nothing would surprise me about Trump.
What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’
We don’t have to hate China. We don’t have to hate other people. Let’s figure out a way to work together.