Roughly 20 percent of the American public are people with medical debt who are disproportionately representing marginalized communities who are struggling with their health issues.

We have Republicans in state legislatures across this country who continue to introduce and pass legislation undermining the rights of LGBTQ people.

That is an injustice.

Congress must act simultaneously by investing in affordable housing supply as a long-term solution.

This is a crisis, and we must act swiftly.

Housing is at the intersection of everything.

It is just extremely important that it is automatic expungement, not something that we have to go through the courts for.

we need laws that center healing and prioritize equity, but every law is only as good as its enforcement.

we did create the first in the Nation social equity program which does provide residents who are disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs with access to critical resources grants and low-or no-interest loans.

those of us that are directly impacted, we experience a host of collateral consequences.

Congress will not be able to give me back the four years that I lost or any other time that anybody has lost.

I rise this morning in solidarity with the millions of student loan borrowers across this Nation who slept a little easier last night knowing that essential student loan debt relief is on the way. I am thinking of every person who has…