Ayanna Pressley

Gilead, you have used your power to manipulate our patent systems, monopolized the marketplace to line your shareholders' pockets, and I think that is shameful.

It has been 40 years since the first HIV case in the U.S., and this disease still remains a global public health challenge.

We have an administration, the occupant of this White House, who sets an aspirational and achievable goal to end this epidemic.

So why should the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau care about enhancing the welfare of predatory lenders?

So while borrowers are struggling to make ends meet, the agency tasked with their protection is busy gifting predatory lenders $8 billion a year.

Now, many would argue that the primary impact is to hurt consumers, but I guess you're right, that the flip side of that is to line lenders' pockets.

I was fortunate enough to discuss this issue before the House Financial Services Committee just last month and to express my concerns regarding the perpetual debt trap that these products leave and create for some of our most vulnerable…

This is not about the vilifying of profit. This is about the vilifying of choosing profit over people.

The American people have invented a way to end the HIV epidemic, and that we should be very proud of.

We do not ask for your company's charity or for tax-deductible donations that meet your company's needs but fail to meet the needs of our communities.

I ask you as a representative of my community, as a proud American, as a scientist, and as a patient, to join me in asking Mr. O'Day what justification do you have for charging $2,000 a month for Truvada as PrEP when the American people…

I hope this conversation sparks the outrage that we need to finally shed light on the evils of White nationalism and far-right extremism and invokes the will and the courage to tackle it head-on.

The growing number of hate crimes taking place in this country are a byproduct of the hateful rhetoric being spewed regularly by the current occupant of our White House.

And at a time when Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police, a document like the FBI's intelligence assessment is not just misleading, it is reckless and dangerous.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

There is not a single doubt in my mind that the growing number of hate crimes taking place in this country are a byproduct of the hateful rhetoric being spewed regularly by the current occupant of our White House.

At a time when Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police, a document like the FBI's intelligence assessment is not just misleading, it is reckless and dangerous.

Do you believe the Administration's efforts to undermine the ACA will help in the opioid crisis?

So, yes or no, do you have a partnership?

Your Administration has indicated that they plan to eradicate and end the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the next decade.

Excuse me. I am sorry. But at the same time, you are intent on overturning the ACA, rolling back protections for preexisting conditions, and undermining the expansion of Medicaid, which can be a critical source for addiction treatment.

Structural racism and systemic biases have shaped our responses to addiction, which has resulted in the criminalizing and the devastating of whole communities for decades.

So, those reentering society, they are 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose.

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 5, after line 19, insert the following paragraph: (3) The Paris Agreement specifies the need for a…

It belongs to the more than 6 million Americans who are caught in a criminal legal system...