Ayanna Pressley

We cannot turn the Agency into a political game. Instead, we must ensure FEMA and its workers have the resources, respect, and public confidence they need to continue their work.

Now, my district, the Massachusetts 7th, relies heavily on FEMA in times of crisis.

When we focus on healing, that is right, we do have to also acknowledge the work of the healer, who is healing the healer?

Survivors, in my opinion, deserve not only to heal, but to thrive, and this law moves us closer to that.

Attempts by Republicans to question the integrity of FEMA workers is a direct attack on FEMA's mission.

It was so that the rich one-percenters could have their tax cut.

Under 4 years of the Trump Administration, unlike any other administration in the history of this country, they somehow managed to rack up $8 trillion in debt in 4 years.

I look forward to continuing to work with you, Administrator Regan, and the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights to protect these investments and ensuring communities have the resources they need to address these…

The Biden-Harris Administration has recognized this by delivering $2 billion in funding to Climate Justice Community Change Grants.

Environmental justice and health equity go hand-in-hand.

It is no accident that communities experiencing the worst of these causes are the same ones that have been on the front lines of historic inequities.

Climate change is not an abstract problem for people of a far-away future to solve.

The disproportionate impact on children and on people is unacceptable.

We are talking about doing everything we can to ensure every single person has access to clean air, clean water.

It is an appalling failure of governance by the Speaker.

Report, Green Justice and Community Labor United, 'Building Strong Careers and Lasting Infrastructure'; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

I will do everything possible to stop you from building the world that you are hell bent on doing.

EEOC offers essential protections that create workplaces where all of us can thrive.

This Project 2025 plan is policy violence, plain and simple.

I find it shameful to advance a vision attacking the very policies and agencies that have helped Black Americans secure jobs, earn a living, and provide for our families.

We all know that Make America Great Again is about making America White only again.

I believe the American public should know exactly how you and the Republican majority that invited you to testify today want to sabotage the EEOC, rewrite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and push all of us back to an era of Jim Crow racism.

PLAs are the mechanism for finishing projects on time and on budget while increasing diversity in the trades.

Valuing and affirming workers does not have to come at the expense of profits.

These opportunities hit close to home. Massachusetts is really leading the way in opening career paths for women in the trades.