Ayanna Pressley

We had a former FBI official on the record who said that Black identity extremists pose no threat to our public safety.

So since 1995, Black Americans have been victims of 66 percent of all racially motivated hate crimes.

The rhetoric that went out from then-candidate Trump was echoed in our Nation's schools.

Hate begets hate and violence begets violence, and there's just far too much of it in the world.

So how many extremist killings has the FBI linked to Black Lives Matter or similar Black activist groups?

There's an increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric, there's an increase anti-Muslim rhetoric, there's an increase in anti-LGBT.

How we implement Census 2020 will have long-lasting impact on our communities, our society, and our democracy.

This is an issue of democracy.

This impact of undercounting cannot be understated and consequences will be borne by our society as a whole.

Again, this is ultimately about honoring the very mission of the Bureau, and that is to put consumers first. I support H.R. 1500, and I urge all of my colleagues to support my amendment, which will be a further effort to protect consumers…

I just think it is important to remind my colleague across the aisle that consumers are being harassed aggressively, and many of them did not even incur the debt for which they are being harassed. So we need to close these loopholes. The…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 40, after line 8, insert the following: SEC. 9. DEBT COLLECTION. (a) Report on Debt Collection…

98 percent of the programs that failed were at for-profit colleges.

These schools have lined their pockets with 100 percent of Federal taxpayer dollars, while consistently failing to meet quality benchmarks.

The rule to revoke a school's access to Federal Student Aid if the typical debt-to-earnings ratio of graduates exceeded a certain threshold.

Respectfully, there is no answer that you could provide me that would be sufficient when you have processed 33 claims in four years, and we're talking about thousands of lives which have been irreparably damaged.

Black and Latino students make up less than 30 percent of all students, yet they comprise almost half of all students at for-profit colleges.

I held one of the first hearings in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the deceptive practices of for-profit colleges.

Well, this is most unfortunate, quite unsavory.

So right now, the way I look at AI is we see this growing coded gaze that is mainly pale, mainly male, and doesn't represent the majority of society.

I do believe the Federal agencies should not use this technology without legislative authorization.

Last week, San Francisco became the first city to ban use of facial recognition technology.

This puts many people, including women and people of color and young people, at grave risk of harm.

I hope that's true because I would hate to think that the Department intentionally abused earnings data and dragged its feet to trigger cancelation of the MOU.

The Department, it seems, has really abused this agreement.