Ayanna Pressley

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.

We did create the first in the Nation social equity program which does provide residents who are disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs with access to critical resources grants and low-or no-interest loans.

I rise this morning in solidarity with the millions of student loan borrowers across this Nation who slept a little easier last night knowing that essential student loan debt relief is on the way. I am thinking of every person who has…

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.

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.