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Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.

Sep 29, 2021

I was proud to see the House take swift action to pass the Women's Health Protection Act last week.

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Sep 29, 2021

These misguided bans will not actually prevent all abortions. They simply put safe and necessary abortion care out of reach for our most vulnerable.

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Sep 29, 2021

Abortion care is a constitutional right, and this pro-choice Democratic majority... can and must do everything possible to protect and guarantee it as such.

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Sep 28, 2021

In the district I represent, the Massachusetts 7th, Somali immigrants living in Roxbury are directly targeted.

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Sep 28, 2021

It is unacceptable for communities of color to bear the brunt of white supremacist violence at the hands of domestic terrorists.

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Sep 28, 2021

The Federal Government certainly has a significant role to play in deterring and ending domestic terrorism at the hands of violent white supremacists.

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Sep 28, 2021

I, along with many of my colleagues, have been sounding the alarm for many years about rising bank branch closures in predominantly Black and Brown communities, and the negative impact that this will have on small businesses owned by…

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Sep 28, 2021

It is no surprise, but egregious nonetheless, that Black-owned businesses received only 2 percent of PPP loans from the CARES Act.

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Sep 27, 2021

The mass incarceration crisis disproportionately impacts Black and Brown communities and, therefore, these communities face collateral consequences of incarceration.

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Sep 24, 2021

Madam Speaker, abortion care is a fundamental human right. Texas' unconscionable abortion ban is further evidence that lawmakers who aim to do harm will stop at nothing to attack our reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. But not on our…

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Sep 21, 2021

Haitian lives are black lives. And if we truly believe that black lives matter, then we must reverse course.

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