Lateefah Simon: “What we should not do is tack on a major labor-management provision on this thing--without hearings on what is a very…”

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 rise today to honor a son of Oakland, California, my constituent, Ryan Coogler, whose film ``Sinners'' has earned 16 Academy Award nominations, the most of any film in Oscar history. Ryan Coogler was born in Oakland, California, raised…

I rise today to speak about betrayal. Nearly 14,000 veterans who served this Nation will sleep unsheltered tonight, not in beds. They will sleep on concrete, in cars, and under bridges. There are 37 million American children who depend on…

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…