Ayanna Pressley: “I hope it will mean something to Black Americans.”

I rise today carrying the voices and the lives of the people in the Massachusetts Seventh whose survival depends on the Affordable Care Act tax credits: the grandmother skipping meals to pay for her prescriptions; the young mom lying awake…

What the American people want to see right now and going forward is that we know how to be the fighters in the room and that when we have the power, we're not afraid to use it,

So people should take heed.

I rise in defense of communities across America terrorized by the dangerous, rogue, and violent actions perpetrated by ICE agents. Millions have seen the videos of ICE shooting and killing Renee Good, a poet and mother who was unarmed and…