"After which failed pregnancy should I have been imprisoned? Would it have been after the first miscarriage? Or would you have put me behind bars after my stillbirth?"
"Millions of women in America, women in this room, women at your home and women you love and cherish have suffered a miscarriage."
"I want to now turn to how DHS is responding to the bomb threats against HBCUs earlier this year."
"Victims of domestic and family violence have become even more vulnerable."
"I hope Republicans in the Senate will do what is needed to make life more affordable, and this drug more affordable for those families."
"Diabetes is not partisan. It should not be partisan. Republicans and Democrats alike are diabetic."
"Domestic terror, no matter the source, no matter the target, is inconsistent with the principles of liberty and equality on which our great Nation was founded."
"we are not a truly functioning democracy if, for example, our laws and practices are designed to marginalize and keep everyone from fully participating."
"I hope that the Bureau will continue to work to ensure that all eight of those care topics are met, so that the health and wellbeing of pregnant women at the BOP facilities are fully protected and car..."
"it is our responsibility here as policymakers to ensure that transformative wins of this bill are fully being carried out"
"the First Step Act was a major stride forward in criminal justice reform designed to address the systemic issues in our Federal prison system"