Madam Speaker, I was unable to physically record my vote on S. 1910. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 225. =========================== NOTE =========================== July 27, 2021, on page H3932, the…

Madam Speaker, long before COVID-19, the education of our most vulnerable students, particularly Black and Brown girls and students with disabilities, had been disrupted by discriminatory and harsh discipline practices. As early as…

For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access and fractured trust with financial institutions is incredibly expensive.

Banking deserts and the implicit and explicit exclusionary practices of financial institutions are widening the racial wealth gap.

I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence.

It is no coincidence that the urban heat island effect is more pronounced in the same neighborhoods that have been historically redlined.

Absolutely, I would call it racism, segregation, environmental degradation, demonization, dehumanization, leading to sacrifice zones and disparate environmental effects to people of color in particular.

Extreme heat kills more Americans every year than every other weather-related disaster.

I am encouraged by the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to prioritize these frontline communities. We need these investments now.

President Biden... has proposed a budget and a Build Back Better Plan which increases such efforts and includes billions in funding to address the public housing repair backlog and millions to remove lead-based paint and other health…

What a welcome change. I am overjoyed to see that we have someone dedicated to exacting housing justice back at the helm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.