Raphael Warnock

The smart thing to do for our environment is also good public policy in terms of workers and the economy.

So airlines are not new to dealing with communicable diseases, right, and you have employed medical experts and we ought to have been listening to the experts.

It's very refreshing and hopeful to hear from these public health experts.

The opposite is actually true that when we are open, when we are inclusive, when we embrace one another, we create a society that is good enough for all.

When we are talking about criminal justice reform, the need for reform in our policing, if you’re talking about voting rights, a whole range of issues, representation matters.

We’ve got to make sure that our communities are safe and that we do everything we can to bend that closer to justice.

The jury got it right today but that won’t bring George Floyd back. The pain that this family is experiencing is unbearable, the meaning of their loss unspeakable.

They’re attacking our democracy based on a big lie. And the goal is power but it’s rooted in an old mythology that says, as you put it, that somehow, if you give other people, those people access, that somehow that takes something away…

The jury got the verdict right but that does not solve this issue.

So what should we do to support, prioritize, and improve service for people who are living in these areas that are experiencing persistent poverty, both in our cities and our rural counties and across the country?

Too often in American politics there is a false dichotomy between urban and rural, which plays into the politics of division.

The truth is we are not investing enough in public transportation, especially in rural and low-income communities.

Some communities have experienced a profound disproportionate impact.

It is an honor to be here at my first Joint Economic Committee hearing, and I look forward to working under your leadership.

We passed the American Rescue Plan, which is, you know, a step in addressing some of the disparities that you talked about exacerbated by the pandemic.

Almost all of those hard-won gains have been erased due to this economic downturn created by a once-in-a-century pandemic.

They need to get rid of the filibuster in order to pass the voting rights bill that already passed in the House of Representatives, at least just do a simple carve out.

This is what Dr. King meant when he said that there comes a time when silence is betrayal.

If we hadn’t won this election, if Georgia hadn’t stood up, the people of Georgia, we wouldn’t have passed that $1.9 trillion bill we just passed, the American Rescue Plan.

Dr. King used to say the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. It’s our job to keep bending the arc.

The most fundamental question is, where do you stand on voting rights?

I believe in democracy. I believe that democracy is, as I said a couple weeks ago, is the political enactment of a spiritual idea.

History is watching us, and our children are counting on us.

It is about whether we are who we say we are. Either we are a democracy or we’re not.

Somehow, the actions of a state legislator knocking on the door of a governor who is signing a law that impacts her constituents, by her actions, were somehow so dangerous and criminal that she got charged with two felonies.