In your opinion, what is the driving factor preventing local governments from implementing similar basic safety features that are more common in wealthier neighborhoods?

Yes, I completely support the establishment of an advisory committee within the Department of Transportation that would advise the Secretary on policies to promote transportation equity.

After we recover from this coronavirus pandemic, we must support our local governments and invest in the Nation's wastewater infrastructure to increase much needed jobs, bring equitable change to ignored and underserved communities.

As the Representative of a district on the front lines of climate change, this is an all Miami-Dade economics fight, critical infrastructure needs.

The Federal Government's decreasing support over the past few decades has left our local communities in a dangerous and precarious position, which has disproportionately affected communities of color like mine.

This hearing, like others, challenges us to make more critically--to think more critically about the impact of systemic racism in our Nation.

When America gets a cold, Black America gets pneumonia.

I think in order to more accurately evaluate slow employment, we have to consider the disparate rates of unemployment that exists across different communities.

I think it is a necessary step to economic recovery.

I don't know that parents will feel very confident in sending their students back to school if we don't have consistent, enforceable standards that are in place.

We must acknowledge the role that race plays in the distribution of wealth and benefits in this country if we are to ever address it.