Ayanna Pressley

Only in America do we consider arming teachers while failing to pay them a livable wage.

We need resources, not revolvers, in our schools.

It is long past time to treat gun violence as the public health crisis that it is.

If someone shot and killed your child, you would not be sitting here wanting to hear about my constitutional right to own a gun.

The creation of a digital dollar is certainly a hefty responsibility.

I hope Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's historic legislation to transform our nation's broken clemency system continues.

Now, it is time for Congress to fix it.

I applaud President Biden for granting 78 commutations and pardons last month.

This should ring alarm bells for every lawmaker because it impacts mass incarceration in each and every one of our districts, and it should stoke the moral outrage of everyone who calls this nation home, as this is a shameful legacy.

We need better healthcare for workers that work the hours that they work, and childcare.

We also do need child--I mean, childcare is a huge problem.

We need to put in place for workers to have paid sick time off.

The banks have certainly proven that they can't be expected to voluntarily reform themselves, and so legislative intervention really is sorely needed.

I want to commend you on your work to bring the CFPB back on the side of consumers.

Offering an apology while avoiding responsibility is really worthless. What you have done is unconscionable.

Like the Sackler family in Purdue Pharma, McKinsey & Company, you have been complicit in creating this country's opioid crisis and profiting off of the pain of millions of families.

I will reclaim my time and look forward to that information if you can't provide it here in the committee hearing today.

Your apologies feel empty and insincere and sort of PR responses, because McKinsey was profiting off of the hurt and harm for years with zero remorse.

Thank you to the committee staff who drafted the report detailing the deceptive, callous, and immoral role that McKinsey has played in furthering the opioid epidemic.

As the people's lawyer, General Healey has been a national leader in efforts to confront the opioid public health crisis.

These book bans are really no more than a malicious political campaign of erasure, erasure of civil rights history...

Across the country, scholars are calling out, rightfully so, how banning books on race and LGBTQ issues from our schools are impeding their education and their own personal development and growth.

Would you at least be willing to go on record and say that you would review this surcharge policy?

I think the detrimental impacts of these fees and its governments' abilities to effectively combat the pandemic is not really up for debate.

Being poor in America is expensive. Millions of families and workers are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to make ends meet due to unlivable wages, a lack of affordable health care, the absence of paid leave, and many other policies…