Ayanna Pressley

Census data is used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal funding for health care programs.

I find that I have that dual experience often on this committee of comparable pride of our honoring the words of our late chairman in being in efficient and effective pursuit of the truth and simultaneous shame with all of the efforts to…

At the very least, we should regulate the use of talc or add warning labels to the products, but, ideally, we need to get this stuff off the shelves.

Current policy is simply out of touch with the fact that, at some point, virtually every person, every working person--because hardship does not discriminate--will need to take time away from a job to fulfill caregiving responsibilities.

It is simply appalling that the United States continues to be one of only two industrialized nations in the world without any form of paid family leave.

I want to say I associate myself with the impassioned Detroit tell-it-like-it-is comments of Representative Tlaib a moment ago, and completely dissociate myself with the comments offered by my colleague across the aisle.

We still want answers. And that's exactly why Representative Schakowsky of Illinois and I earlier submitted a letter.

When Johnson & Johnson asks people to trust them, the FDA should have said, show us.

I find it insulting to this committee and to the men and women across this country whose trust in Johnson & Johnson has destroyed their lives.

I think this is the very exact vehicle and forum where this sort of oversight is supposed to take place.

What is happening in Haiti is of specific and urgent import to the people that I represent, dealing with the fact that they cannot travel back to the funerals of their loved ones due to the violence; the fact that students cannot go to…

A parent is a child's first teacher. My mother did not read me nursery rhymes, but she made sure early on that I knew the words of Toussaint Louverture, 'I was born a slave, but Nature gave me the soul of a free man.'

I thank Representative Tlaib for her leadership on this and so many social justice issues. I really appreciate her organizing this Special Order hour, and I hope that, in some ways, it assures the American people that we have not lost…

Working families shouldn't have to wait 3 to 5 days for a check to clear.

This is important, because if we are banning flavors we must ban all flavors, which includes mint and menthol.

It is critical that we hold both Big Tobacco and Big Vaping accountable for targeting young people...

Menthol e-cigarettes are not an offramp for adult menthol smokers. They are an onramp to hooking a new generation of smokers.

47,000 black people die every year from smoking-related illness, making this the largest cause of preventable death among black Americans.

We must clamp down on the production of menthol products and not the individual possession of it, because there are real intergenerational, traumatic consequences of broken windows policing.

To not do so would be discriminatory, since menthol, in particular, has imposed a unique and deadly burden on the black community.

Our work to end the smoking epidemic is not just simply a matter of public health. This is, and always has been, an issue of racial justice.

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and for always fighting for those too often ignored, left out, and left behind. We are grateful for her. Now, just as I close, as we wrap this Special Order hour, Transgender Day of Remembrance is…

I thank the gentleman for those words and for telling us more about those we were prematurely robbed of all that they had to contribute to this world. It is important that we continue to bring their names into this well, into this august…

I thank the gentleman for those powerful words. Like the gentleman, I agree that we cannot say those names enough. Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from the great State of Missouri (Mr. Cleaver).

I believe that your voice is the most important of all the important voices that we have heard today.