Ayanna Pressley

So again, that is not consumer protection.

I have always believed that people closest to the page should be closest to the power, driving and informing the policymaking.

We need solutions of scale to address this problem.

This proposed rule would allow debt collectors and collection attorneys to attempt to collect old, expired debt.

Research has shown that some student-loan borrowers are finding themselves physically ill as a result of the stress and anxiety associated with their loans.

My bill would prohibit the Director from issuing rules allowing collectors to bombard consumers with unlimited text messages and emails.

I am introducing H.R. 4664, the Monitoring and Curbing Abusive Debt Collection Practices Act.

I urge the remainder of my colleagues to do the same.

It is clear that the current system is insufficient. Small and local banks and small businesses alike do stand to benefit from this proposal.

My bill requires the Fed to build this system in 3 years, allowing the U.S. to remain competitive.

That is why I was proud to introduce the Payments Modernization Act in partnership with Representative Chuy Garcia and Senators Warren and Van Hollen.

This is no longer a question of if, but when and how fast--how this faster payment system will develop.

Working families should not have to wait days at a time just to access their own hard-earned money.

The wealth held by the bottom 90 percent of Americans is rapidly shrinking.

Nearly half of all wealth grown since 1986, as you well know, has gone to the top 1 percent of our households, while the top 1 percent controls 42 percent of the nation's wealth.

Over the past 4 decades, wealth and income inequality has skyrocketed.

I am working with some restaurant workers to eliminate the subminimum wage, which in many ways, given who represents that workforce, contributes to the very issue we are discussing today.

Now, I'll get to Dr. Rizzo. So we have seen no evidence that e-cigarettes are useful for smoking cessation. In fact, dual use is significantly more prevalent. Is dual use safe?

So, Ms. Porter, you know, I'm grateful for every one adult smoker that e-cigarettes are actually helping to quit nicotine, but for every one adult smoker that is being helped, 81 kids will be introduced to nicotine through e-cigarettes and…

A new generation of young people are becoming addicted to nicotine through these kid-friendly flavors, and we have no idea, truly, the long-term impacts this will have.

To be effective, do you agree that the flavor ban needs to include mint and menthol?

I am heartened to see the bipartisan interest and commitment to address what is a fast-moving outbreak and am hopeful that we will show similar and equitable outrage when it comes to gun violence, which is also a public health crisis.

I think first and foremost, the strategies that are being developed...needs to identify violent white supremacy as the current serious domestic threat that it is.

What should Congress do to ensure that other counterterrorism agencies do not similarly and unjustly target minority communities?

In August, we learned from a leaked 2018 FBI document that the FBI considered BIE, black identity extremists, to be as high a priority as white supremacy extremists.