Ayanna Pressley

If we don't pay attention to those experiences, if we don't correct them, we are at risk of losing our democracy for everyone.

We will meet the moment, we will work towards healing justice and collective liberation, like our lives depend on it, because they do.

Make it plain. We are in unprecedented, uncertain times. We are challenged by the state of the nation and the crisis we face. But the state of our movement, it is strong, and another world is possible. Yes, it is possible to legislate…

The American people deserve that.

At best, these actions represent irresponsible leadership from a novice who has absolutely no business leading a government agency.

These actions... are cruel, unethical, and antidemocratic.

In my opinion, the only thing you should be delivering is your resignation.

Isn't it true that pursuing a hiring freeze and early retirement when your work force is already stretched thin by coronavirus would exacerbate delays in the mail, yes or no?

Mr. DeJoy, will you commit to providing this committee with the data that you say you are already formally collecting, disaggregated by congressional district, on COVID-19-related deaths, positive tests, and quarantines of postal workers…

Let me just say this has been an unconventional convention because of this global pandemic and it needed to be anyway, because we find ourselves in unprecedented times with an occupant of the Oval Office who has a deficit of empathy, who…

And so I know in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris we will have partners to do that work with and that they represent the door, not a destination. But right now we have got to be focused on ensuring that they are successful, because as President…

Our goal can't just be opening schools. It must be keeping them open because if we open them up only to close them a short time later, that will just create more instability, more chaos, and more confusion.

We should not be delaying the start of the school year. Our children have lost far too much valuable learning time already.

If Congress had appropriated a significant investment in schools back in the spring, our local communities could have immediately deployed those resources to address glaring equity gaps that COVID-19 has both exposed and, unfortunately…

The disproportionate burden of air pollution and climate change effects have been in communities of color and in low-income communities.

The global climate crisis does pose an existential threat to our planet, and we are already experiencing it in dangerous and destructive impacts.

And if Members of this body and this administration continue to ignore the science of climate change, what is at stake for mental and physical health of frontline communities in particular?

It is our job in Congress to confront these challenges.

Our constituents are paying for his leadership failure with their lives.

I think the time for small steps and half-measures is long time-over, it's expired. It is time for a Green New Deal.

Today's hearing demonstrates that climate change and public health, they are inextricably linked.

I, along with numerous colleagues here on Oversight Committee, cosponsored H.R. 109, legislation recognizing the Federal Government's duty to create a Green New Deal.

It is just clear that it is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

The majority of minority-, immigrant-, and women-owned businesses are micro in size... they are the backbone of our local economies.

We must not repeat exclusionary policies of past Federal responses.