"I support FEMA aggressively making vaccination efforts. It is important that the location selection prioritize availability to those at greatest risk."
"This is an amazingly great development. But more FEMA sites need to be added, especially in districts like mine."
"The recent actions of the Biden administration to address the climate crisis and environmental justice bring hope that meaningful progress is possible."
"I recently reintroduced legislation called the Climate Smart Ports Act to invest in zero emissions technology for cargo-handling equipment and trucks at ports and shore power for idling ships."
"we can't be bold enough after the last 4 years with the disastrous policies, so we have got to move forward and move wholly."
"Our bill does cover that, and it is a huge issue for me as well and your workers."
"The damage of the last 4 years by the Trump administration to our planet and to our communities of color was devastating."
"I appreciate every Member of Congress in this committee that believes 9/11 is real and that it happened."
"I represent a district that is almost 90 percent Latino, African-American, low-income, poor."
"We are having some constituents having to take three buses just to get to a vaccination site."
"We will also remind people that we inherited over 400,000 deaths from this pandemic, partially for inaction that was taken."