Based on reports, I believe if your employees had had the opportunity to collectively bargain and improve their working conditions, consumers would not have been exploited.
Ayanna Pressley
The Public Record
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.
I introduced the Greater Supervision in Banking Act to shine a light on working conditions for employees.
After years of scandals and billions of dollars in fines, you owe your employees accountability.
Remittances help working-class families stay afloat when they need it the most and have demonstratively reduced poverty in several countries.
As the Representative of the third-largest Caribbean diaspora in the United States, this hearing really resonates deeply with me.
Justice delayed is justice denied. We cannot allow Big Oil to continue use the legal system to escape accountability.
Fossil fuel companies have abused the legal system to escape accountability for their role in exacerbating the climate crisis.
Forgiving student loans means for you, for your kids, for the midterms and where this big fight goes next.
Democrats are connected to the pain that everyday people are experiencing. And we’re doing something about it.
This is about educators who have sleepless nights because they can’t meet the monthly minimums and pay for childcare, who took on this debt because they want to educate our babies.
Our colleagues across the aisle don’t know what a hand up looks like. That’s why they didn’t want a child tax credit.
This is impactful. This is a bold step in the right direction. It is transformative, and it will be -- it will be felt.
This is transformative. This is an unprecedented step to alleviate the burden that people are feeling, to the tune of a $2 trillion crisis.
Democrats win when we deliver and when people can feel the transformative impact, the meaningful impact, the day-to-day impact of our policies and our advocacy on their behalf.
As long as gun manufacturers have immunity to sell their weapons of war using harmful marketing tactics, Black and brown communities will continue to be targeted, and that has got to change.
As Congresswoman for the Massachusetts Seventh I am going to do everything in my power to keep my constituents safe and stand up against white supremacy whenever and wherever it shows up.
While the gun industry rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars, choosing profit over people, selling weapons of war to anyone who wants them...
Every family has the right to a stable, safe, and affordable home, but for Black families, this right has truly never been actualized.
Blatantly racist policies, like redlining, denied Black families homeownership opportunities throughout much of America's history, and we are still seeing the effects of those laws today.
I am a huge supporter of the Treat Long Covid Act. Long COVID clinics are extremely necessary to get all of the care in one place.
We need to advance bold, equitable policy that meets unprecedented hurt and harm with significant investments in healing and justice.
Congress must take action to alleviate the pain, suffering, grief, and trauma resulting from the crisis within a crisis that is Long COVID.





