Ayanna Pressley

"shameful" amid the "unspeakable violence" in Haiti.

I think it’s really important in these times that we call a thing a thing. We’re in a moment of anti-Blackness on steroids, and we refuse to be silent.

There’s always been a large movement and coalition around H.R. 40.

I hope it will mean something to Black Americans, and I hope that it will mean something to people of conscience, who care about the work of truth and reconciliation and healing.

I hope it will mean something to Black Americans.

I love doing the work of consensus building.

We’ll be advocating for support on and off of the Hill.

Our government, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office, has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on Black communities.

I’m working actively to blunt the assaults from a hostile administration that means harm to everyone that calls this country home, but will have a disparate impact on Black Americans.

We have a hostile administration working actively to roll back decades of progress and more recent progress when it comes to our civil rights.

We find ourselves in a moment of emboldened white supremacy and anti-Black racism, and a weaponized Supreme Court that is actively gutting protections and progress that has been made.

How cruel it is that Republicans in Congress would deny them that small comfort? In these dire situations, families forego treatment which has no hope of saving their baby's life and instead spend time comforting them and saying good-bye…

We certainly will keep the pressure up until we see a restoration of equitable, reliable services, because every community deserves exactly that.

The United States Postal Service is much more than a delivery system. It is a lifeline.

I am proud to stand alongside them.

I would certainly give you a failing grade.

Mr. DeJoy, maybe Congress should pass a law that forces you to receive all your income and prescriptions via postal mail.

I continue to be incredibly frustrated at the injustice that we have incarcerated individuals being counted according to where they are being warehoused instead of being counted according to the communities that they are from.

Extremist conservatives are trying to weaken the Census.

We are the Oversight Committee, and our job is to conduct oversight, but it is not to intimidate Federal employees.

This is based on a political desire, one, to identify immigrants in a time and a place when immigrants are being targeted.

The arguments that we are hearing here this morning that immigrants should not be counted is un-American.

We have a moral responsibility to ensure that the Federal Government does not forget the people it serves.

Every community deserves to be seen, heard, and invested in, and there should be no erasure.

The importance of the Census Bureau's mission really cannot be overstated enough, but it is under threat