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Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.

Quotes by year · 201120261,140 total · peak 2019 (434)
2011: 3 quotes2018: 2 quotes2019: 434 quotes2020: 149 quotes2021: 188 quotes2022: 117 quotes2023: 75 quotes2024: 109 quotes2025: 40 quotes2026: 23 quotes
Mar 28, 2023

The story of SVB's collapse is the story of a Republican Administration in cahoots with the banking industry to weaken our financial regulations.

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Mar 28, 2023

The dangerous and irresponsible nature of this deregulation bill was completely predictable.

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Mar 28, 2023

The 2018 deregulation law specifically made it easy for SVB and Signature Bank to engage in risky management practices.

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Mar 28, 2023

Congress should consider the SVB collapse a wake-up call and take action.

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Mar 23, 2023

I am thankful for my sister in service here, my indefatigable colleague from Wisconsin, who leads on so many issues of consequence, especially in the space of anti-poverty, the stabilization of family, and women's health. I appreciate her…

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Mar 9, 2023

I thank my colleague and my dear friend from Pennsylvania for making this Special Order hour a priority. I know your constituents and the people of this country appreciate it. I rise today on behalf of the people across our Nation seeking…

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Mar 9, 2023

Expanding flood insurance coverage is an important tool to prevent everyone, especially low-income folks, from facing financial ruin in the event of a flood.

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Mar 9, 2023

For cities in my district like Boston, Chelsea, and Everett, the climate crisis is not an abstract, far in the future, distant problem; it is a reality here and now.

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Mar 8, 2023

There is no political bias happening here.

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Mar 8, 2023

We need more, not less, of the CFPB.

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Mar 8, 2023

These racist messages were loud and clear for everyone to hear, and it bore out in the data.

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Mar 8, 2023

The history of the term dates back decades to when lenders would literally draw a red line around neighborhoods to stop Black people from moving in, as a way to maintain segregation.

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Mar 8, 2023

Unfortunately, some colleagues across the aisle are busy trying to criticize the agency and to undermine its mission.

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Mar 8, 2023

In today's hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we should really be praising the work of the agency and discussing how to augment its successes for consumers all across our country.

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Mar 7, 2023

This is putting homeownership further and further out of reach for my constituents, including new parents, parents, millennials, and people of color.

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Mar 7, 2023

It is unconscionable, and our most-vulnerable workers and families cannot afford to wait for you to realize the harm that you were doing.

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Mar 7, 2023

The most devastating impacts will be to our most-vulnerable populations: veterans, the elderly, low-income workers, and Black and Brown workers.

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Mar 7, 2023

Engineering a recession to bring inflation under control is not the right strategy, especially at a time when we are seeing inflation cool in real time.

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Feb 6, 2023

War should not be the centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy.

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Feb 6, 2023

I want to take a moment to condemn the anti-Asian rhetoric by many of our colleagues in Congress across the aisle.

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Feb 6, 2023

I want to just take a moment to condemn the anti-Asian rhetoric by many of our colleagues in Congress across the aisle...

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Jan 11, 2023

To those pressing these divisive anti- choice resolutions, we see right through you. Madam Speaker, abortion is healthcare and a fundamental human right, and I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

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Dec 13, 2022

Our credit reporting system is a broken one, and we have to legislate and act in such a way to address it.

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Dec 13, 2022

I am still concerned about the 30 percent of medical bills that won't be removed and the impact that this will have on low-income consumers in my district.

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