Ayanna Pressley

Cities like Chelsea, Everett, and Randolph in my district were among the most severely impacted communities and they needed additional relief.

The American Rescue Plan put forth by the Biden/Harris administration and passed by Democrats in Congress, was a lifeline for families across the Massachusetts 7th congressional District.

And is that exactly why we need to be intentional in ensuring that minority- and women-owned cannabis businesses are not left behind in our recovery efforts, that there will be a more intentional and deliberate amount?

Ensuring Black and Brown folks can start and sustain cannabis businesses is a matter of economic and racial justice.

This is such an important discussion on ensuring that minority- and women-owned small businesses share in the benefits of any long-term economic recovery.

Congress looks to you, the attorney general of the United States, to enforce the constitution and our voting rights laws with unmitigated vigor and tenacity. We write to urge you to leverage the full might of the Department of Justice to…

Let's recognize carbon capture for what it is. ... it is a delay tactic and a distraction.

Let's continue to highlight the harmful effects on our most vulnerable communities, and I think we can start to make some real impacts there.

Let's be done with it. Let's end 45Q that gives tax breaks to companies that say they are going to build yet haven't.

Carbon capture is not proven and its risks are catastrophically dangerous.

The climate crisis is not a theoretical problem for the future. It is an imminent problem and crisis right now.

At the end of the day, infrastructure, in its development and implementation, has the potential to divide or to bridge, to enforce oppression or to dismantle it, and we have to learn the lessons of the past and chart a better course.

Our communities lost access to jobs and other critical resources, divestment that to this very day contributes to the racial wealth gap in our nation.

The 1956 Interstate Highway Act... resulted in the displacement of more than 1 million people and more than 475,000 families in just 2 decades.

For too long, our traditional infrastructure investments and policies have really exacerbated inequities and disparities in our communities.

At the age of 86 years young today, we give Willie O'Ree his flowers. Go Bruins.

We certainly have seen increased illness here this last month but we are hopeful in the next month that we will see some of that wane.

We need consumer confidence to rally. We need people to feel safe and want to travel and spend their money on entertainment...

While the PPP money and the Save Our Stages money was critical to keeping our employees on payroll this last year...

Democracy won the battle on January 6, but the war is still being waged against democracy.

There must be accountability. That is why we need full and thorough investigations. Anyone who was complicit or aided and abetted in this, including members of Congress, must be expelled.

I think it`s really important that we not whitewash what spurred and perpetuated this big lie, ultimately resulting in this insurrection. And that is white supremacy.

It is a shame that it`s taken so long. It is a shame that she, a black woman, is now having to step in for other black women and other people of color to make the workspace safe for them, to call this out and demand the accountability that…

Enough is enough. Each day that passes without meaningful accountability, we risk normalizing this behavior and endangering the lives of our Muslim colleagues, Muslim staff and every Muslim who calls this country home.

I feel an extraordinary urgency. We saw how Don McGahn used the courts and delay, delay, delay to not allow us to hold him accountable.