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Domestic violent extremism represents the 'greatest threat in the homeland right now.'

Federal and State authorities managed to disrupt a plot by at least 14 men to kidnap and kill our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

The new reality that we have to come to terms with is that our extremists here at home... pose the greatest threat.

The threat is compounded by tech platforms that make radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization easier.

Domestic violent extremism represents the greatest threat in the homeland right now.

Another bill I'll be introducing this week is the Pay Equity for All Act.

That's why this week I'm reintroducing my bill, the Fair Pay Act, that would require that if men and women are doing comparable work, they will be paid comparable wages.

Madam Chair, you found a very useful way to recognize Women's History Month, and I appreciate that very much.

Seven hundred and twelve thousand tax-paying Americans don`t have a representative, a voting representative in Congress and no senators. And that is in our view a civil rights and voting rights issue that should be undertaken with HR-1.

The people of Washington, D.C. voted on statehood. They didn`t vote to secede from the Union. They didn`t vote to shirk their taxes. They just voted to say that we need equal representation and full autonomy. We need two senators.

Well, Joy, you hit the nail right on the head. Their arguments are, they are stupid, and they show that they have run out of and we have debunked all of the arguments they used to use against that. It`s not constitutional.

I support how Senator Schumer is going to get this bill through. We make the argument, Joy, that this is as much a voting rights issue as all the voter suppression that we see around the country.

The people of Washington, D.C. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for us in the Senate in the CARES package. We were shorted $750 million, three quarters of a billion dollars, to respond to a global pandemic. That is what it…

Well, you know, Joy, the people of Washington, D.C. voted on statehood. They didn’t vote to secede from the Union. They didn’t vote to shirk their taxes. They just voted to say that we need equal representation and full autonomy. We need…

It’s a breath of fresh air. It’s not politics, I just think that Biden has appointed people to the justice department who don’t breach those norms willy-nilly.

Maybe that shouldn’t settle the issue.

This bill would achieve these goals while also promoting transparency and encouraging federal agencies to strive to reach minorities.

The federal government is the largest advertiser in the United States.