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.
Ayanna Pressley
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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.
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.