Ayanna Pressley

Diversity is not about counting heads but it is really about inclusion, and we also care about promotion and wealth building.

The problem is clearly a systemic one. Hiring women and people of color into a hostile environment where they promptly leave, traumatized, is not the progress that we are aiming for.

Congress must act. We have to pass the Women`s Health Protection Act. We have to pass the Each Act and repeal Hyde, ensuring everyone has access to health care, to abortion care, which is health care, which is a constitutional right.

Because we know that when you restrict access it does not mean that people will stop having abortions, it just means that they will not do it safely, they will not do it legally.

We have to pass the Women`s Health Protection Act. We have to pass the Each Act and repeal Hyde, ensuring everyone has access to health care, to abortion care, which is health care, which is a constitutional right.

So, if the courts are not going to be on the side of the people, it is up to Congress to meet the moment, this unprecedented moment with unprecedented leadership and with unprecedented legislating.

I will stick with and be in alignment with the verbiage that you`ve used already in this segment, Joy, unprecedented, rancid, and I will offer one more word, predictable.

This is settled law. The majority of Americans do not want this overturned.

They say the bill will cause long-term inflation. Wrong. That is a falsehood. They say it will add to the deficit. Wrong. That is a falsehood.

So, zero Republicans--zero--voted for the Build Back Better Act, despite it containing substantial serious and popular solutions to combat inflation, supply chain issues, and financial hardship, solutions that are fully paid for.

I am tired of this fear mongering and misinformation, so let's today, in this moment, set the record straight about the Build Back Better Act.

The House just passed the Build Back Better Act. We are closer than ever to delivering overdue support for workers, for families, and for the economy.

Through the first half of this year, banks and credit unions experienced a 1,318 percent increase in ransomware attacks

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You forgot to mention in my introduction, 'and the Congresswoman for the Massachusetts Seventh District, proudly representing the Boston Red Sox.'

Your companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying efforts each year.

The Build Back Better Act is a climate justice bill and a workers justice bill.

One climate scientist said, 'What we do in the next 10 years will matter for 10,000 years.'

A just transition from pollution-based profits to healthy green living means that no worker will be left behind.

With millions of dollars that are going to lobbyist, super PACs, and shadow groups, these corporations refuse to invest in their own workers to ensure they have a future in a renewable energy economy.

We must treat this climate crisis like lives depend on it because they quite literally do.

The CFPB's job would be much easier if the President honored his promise and finally cancelled student debt.

The most efficient way for President Biden to provide relief for millions of borrowers and families is to provide across-the-board student debt cancellation.

Discrimination is wrong, and that no regulator should make carveouts that allow people to discriminate?

I wanted to speak to you about an issue that I have been sounding the alarm on for over a year now, one I know you are very familiar with, the issue of educational redlining.

I am excited and grateful that you will be a partner at the helm of the CFPB.