Ayanna Pressley

Banking deserts and the implicit and explicit exclusionary practices of financial institutions are widening the racial wealth gap.

For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access and fractured trust with financial institutions is incredibly expensive.

I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence.

Absolutely, I would call it racism, segregation, environmental degradation, demonization, dehumanization, leading to sacrifice zones and disparate environmental effects to people of color in particular.

It is no coincidence that the urban heat island effect is more pronounced in the same neighborhoods that have been historically redlined.

Extreme heat kills more Americans every year than every other weather-related disaster.

I am encouraged by the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to prioritize these frontline communities. We need these investments now.

President Biden... has proposed a budget and a Build Back Better Plan which increases such efforts and includes billions in funding to address the public housing repair backlog and millions to remove lead-based paint and other health…

What a welcome change. I am overjoyed to see that we have someone dedicated to exacting housing justice back at the helm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Many of my colleagues today have really proved that our greatest deficit as a nation is not one of resource, but of empathy.

Our greatest wealth as a nation is the health of our people, and a meaningful, universal, and permanent paid leave policy is about the health of our people, about the stabilization of our families.

The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act is a critical bill introduced by my colleagues, Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Barbara Lee.

It is time we recognize and treat structural racism and police brutality through a public health lens when we can.

What impacts would universal vouchers have for helping marginalized populations avoid homelessness and criminalization?

Transforming the Housing Choice Voucher Program into an entitlement program, similar to Medicare or Medicaid, is the bold, transformative, and necessary change that my constituents need right now.

The Sackler family, again, their apologies are empty. Their pockets remain full.

They are predators. They are cowards, plain and simple.

The billions of dollars they raked in by exploiting opioid addiction should be reinvested in those whose lives were decimated.

Thank you for your leadership in this fight to hold the Sackler family accountable.

The current consumer product safety system is failing parents and families across the Nation.

For too long the Federal Government has not prioritized the safety and well-being of infants, toddlers, and children.

Thank you for convening this critically important hearing.

The direct partnership between law enforcement and white supremacist militias must be called out and must be confronted.

It is deeply offensive and inaccurate to equate the Black Lives Matter movement with militia groups.

Palestinians are being told the same thing as black folks in America. There is no acceptable form of resistance.