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.

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?

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

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

I want to thank my colleague, Senator Brown, for bringing us together in this way, reading from a letter from a Birmingham jail by Dr. King, April 16, 1963. Dr. King writes: MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham…

some communities have experienced a profound disproportionate impact.

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.

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

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.