Lateefah Simon

Our tax dollars should not be going towards projects that do not abide by our basic civil rights.

The Trump administration does not have West Oakland’s best interests at heart. I am committed [to] using every tool in our toolbox to stop this coal terminal and fighting on behalf of our residents.

Federal transit programs form the backbone of communities of all sizes, connecting people to jobs, education, and opportunity.

Every child deserves the chance to safely be their most authentic self at school.

This bill directly targets faith institutions and nonprofit organizations that step in every single day to support families navigating a deeply unequal justice system across the country. A wide network of faith leaders every Sunday pass a…

When families can’t afford to stay in their communities, when veterans sleep on our streets, when working people are one rent increase away from losing everything, that is a failure of policy and political will.

It is without apology that when you write legislation that cuts into the flesh of the working poor, you cannot call it policy. When you cut into the flesh of working-class Americans, you don't call it policy. You call it what it is…

As the first congenitally blind person to serve in the United States Congress, I am honored to rise today in support of this bipartisan bill with Representative Stauber, the ThinkDIFFERENTLY About Disability Employment Act. The disability…

I stand with Congressman Green. I stand with every American who refuses to let this country slide into a system that values profit over people.

This is our country. This is our fight. And we will not back down.

Congressman Al Green’s protest is not just an act of defiance—it is an act of patriotism.

They’re cheating Americans out of a functioning budget…willing to cut cancer research…school classrooms with 60 kindergarteners.

But I surely don’t want to hear his racist, misogynist rhetoric.

They’re cheating Americans out of a functioning budget…willing to cut cancer research…school classrooms with 60 kindergarteners.

You cannot fight cancer on a budget…. I know what it was like to rely on a death benefit after my husband died in his early 40s…[and] to rely on SNAP benefits.

I surely don’t want to hear his racist, misogynist rhetoric.

You cannot fight cancer on a budget.

This is our house. The president is a guest.

We need a government that is run by and for working people, not billionaires—and that’s what the WFP is fighting for.

I have to tell you I do not know much about the history of this at all other than I know we are injecting ourselves into this labor-management dispute, which we should not be doing.

But what we are doing in this labor-management provision is bypassing the committee of jurisdiction. I remind the Senator from Arizona--I do not think he was here when I mentioned it--this particular amendment was tried on the…

This is the labor-management issue that was added on. And just so there is no misunderstanding, Mr. President, I will introduce for myself and Senator Kennedy the FAA bill with this provision stripped. I am just going to leave it at the…

What we should not do is tack on a major labor-management provision on this thing--without hearings on what is a very controversial provision, I might add.

I am all for the FAA bill. What was put on was neither in the House nor in the Senate on this bill. That can be put on--if you drop this provision, it can be put on the continuing resolution. There are a variety of ways of handling this. I…