This has helped millions of people stay off the street and make sure that our communities are kept as full as possible.

Those dollars are crucial to be circulating within the economy. They are the ones that are keeping that small business afloat because they can still continue to purchase those goods and services.

What we need right now is a reduction of carbon emissions by 50 percent this decade.

I thank Mr. Bowman for organizing this Special Order hour. I like to describe the student loan debt crisis as a boot on the neck of the American Dream and on the neck of millions of Americans who make that American Dream a reality. And…

Do you agree that climate change is worse for low-income and communities of color?

Those are the ones that are most likely to not get the jobs in the oil fields or most likely the ones not to see the direct benefits but also get the dirtier air, the dirtier water.

Their hypocrisy that they choose life is astounding at best and cynical at worst.

And that is exactly the point, that all these health outcomes that are negative for black women, minorities, indigenous people, are a result of policy decisions that have been made for generation upon generation.

I rise because I have had enough of the games. I have had enough of the bad faith arguments and enough of the hypocrisy when it comes to the debt limit from the other side of the aisle. Increasing or suspending the debt limit enables us to…

When you are born, after that, you are on your own.

The Republicans, the other side of the aisle, they love to talk about life, but they talk about life in what I call the bookends of a person's life--their birth and their death--but they really don't pay much attention to the life that…

Words do matter. Directing benefits can lead to just the same old, same old, or actually lead to a transformative effect for these communities.

universal paid leave is just critical to protecting all Americans.

Rather than telling people you are going to have to transition, let's make sure jobs are there first.

We have to take hard steps to right these wrongs, to right what has occurred, not for years, but for generations.

We call on Congress to support this order with the funding it requires, while doing more to require high labor standards.

I am passionate about this issue because people see policy on if it is working or not, with how it impacts their own personal lives and what they see on the ground.

The shift to clean energy is a tremendous opportunity to create union jobs.

To combat and reverse climate change, we need to evolve how we produce energy, expand energy efficiency for usage and conservation.

They put them where the working class and the poor live and destroyed communities in the process.

This America was never forgotten. It was the fact that corporations, and politicians, and decision-makers viewed this part of America as the dumping ground for their businesses.

Do you consider threats against elected officials and an assault on the Capitol to be free speech?

How can you prepare if there wasn't something of that sort?

That is something that I will never forget, and I am still extremely angry about that day.

But you did not issue an intelligence bulletin, a threat assessment for January 6.