"This hearing is historic, and I am honored to participate alongside my sisters in service."
"As we go into Mother's Day weekend, let us recommit our efforts and support to ensure that every birthing person across this Nation is empowered and feels safe when making that wonderful and exciting ..."
"In the recently passed American Rescue Plan, language from my Healthy Moms bill was included, which provided states the option of expanding postpartum coverage from 60 days to one full year after givi..."
"Let me explain why this is such an important step forward."
"Black mamas matter, Black babies matter, Black lives matter."
"Well, I think today's hearing shows how we have to be intentional in rooting out racist methodologies in our organ procurement process and throughout healthcare."
"We are not aware of a biological reason why race, as an independent factor, would affect the decision to be an organ donor or the number of organs transplanted."
"I think we need greater transparency to know when OPOs are disregarding potential donors simply because of their race."
"We must confront the racial injustices in our organ transplantation system as a matter of life and death, because it quite literally is."
"There's really just--there's not an answer because there's no justifiable answer for this discrimination."
"We need to be building more public housing and sustaining what we already have."