Ayanna Pressley

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.''

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

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.

That is an injustice.

Roughly 20 percent of the American public are people with medical debt who are disproportionately representing marginalized communities who are struggling with their health issues.

It is a systemic issue. Jamal is no anomaly. It is the reality of tens of millions of households and individuals across this country.

What we have seen is a policy violence in nearly half of the states in our country, which have introduced 43 bills this year alone that only would deepen those inequities, particularly for transgender people, by restricting access to…

We have Republicans in state legislatures across this country who continue to introduce and pass legislation undermining the rights of LGBTQ people.

I certainly look forward to a day where people do not have to relive their trauma in order to compel action.

There needs to be unrest in the streets.

Congress must act simultaneously by investing in affordable housing supply as a long-term solution.

Housing is at the intersection of everything.

This is a crisis, and we must act swiftly.

We need laws that center healing and prioritize equity, but every law is only as good as its enforcement.

It is just extremely important that it is automatic expungement, not something that we have to go through the courts for.

Congress will not be able to give me back the four years that I lost or any other time that anybody has lost.

Those of us that are directly impacted, we experience a host of collateral consequences.