"there needs to be pressure and support from others who do in order to bring the Congress together"
"I commend House Resources Chair Raul Grijalva and the bipartisan co-sponsors of H. Res. 279 who call on the Insular Cases to be rejected in their entirety."
"The Constitution grants Congress . . . the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where [the Constitution's] terms apply."
"Systemic racist is the standard that codified into law in 1938."
"It's time that we treated those workers equally."
"My bill the Environmental Justice Act of 2021 codifies Executive Order 12898 on environmental justice."
"Democracy is about participating in the decisions that affect your lives."
"This bill is included in the CLEAN Future Act under section 602 and 510."
"True environmental justice means that our Government is looking out for these communities with the same intensity as they would for those with money, access, and power."
"Consider as constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American Citizens residents of Puerto Rico can have equal rights and government by the consent of the governed."
"Congress must immediately end its inherently colonial territorial rule over Puerto Rico, because it violates America's values of democracy, equal justice under the law, and government by the consent o..."