The voter suppression tactics they support are targeted and precise with the aim of stripping power away from Black folks, Hispanic, and Latinx, and voters with disabilities.

Long before COVID-19, the education of our most vulnerable students, particularly Black and Brown girls and students with disabilities, had been disrupted by discriminatory and harsh discipline practices. As early as preschool…

I was unable to physically record my vote on S. 1910. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 225. =========================== NOTE =========================== July 27, 2021, on page H3932, the following appeared…

Absolutely, I would call it racism, segregation, environmental degradation, demonization, dehumanization, leading to sacrifice zones and disparate environmental effects to people of color in particular.

It is no coincidence that the urban heat island effect is more pronounced in the same neighborhoods that have been historically redlined.

Extreme heat kills more Americans every year than every other weather-related disaster.

Banking deserts and the implicit and explicit exclusionary practices of financial institutions are widening the racial wealth gap.

For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access and fractured trust with financial institutions is incredibly expensive.

I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence.

I am encouraged by the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to prioritize these frontline communities. We need these investments now.

What a welcome change. I am overjoyed to see that we have someone dedicated to exacting housing justice back at the helm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

President Biden... has proposed a budget and a Build Back Better Plan which increases such efforts and includes billions in funding to address the public housing repair backlog and millions to remove lead-based paint and other health…