Ayanna Pressley

This is about what is right and just for the American people.

Charities should not be abused as personal piggy banks.

Electric light is the most efficient policeman.

One more time, Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank you for your leadership and the way in which you comport yourself.

Absolutely. I know even in the district I represent in Massachusetts, there have been something like 3,000 of those complaints based on erroneous data just in the last 2 years alone.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

I do just think ultimately if the goal here is to treat people and customers as consumers and not as products, then we can't in any way be complicit to executives who are turning a profit there unscathed when there are customers who are…

Specifically, I worry about those who have been victims of the deceptive business practices and predatory marketing of some for-profit colleges and universities...

We know that everyday Americans are punished and suffering in terms of their opportunity for social and economic mobility and bare necessities, often for things outside of their control.

I want to thank all of you for being here. And as someone who has a name that is often mispronounced, I did just want to get clarity.

I know there are some models throughout the country that are being explored due to discriminatory housing policies.

Although there are more people employed than ever before, most of them are underemployed.

There is an intersectionality and a complexity here that does require a holistic and comprehensive response.

People are an incident, a circumstance away from experiencing homelessness.

It is an issue of consequence to all of our districts and certainly to the country.

I want to thank Representative Perlmutter for his leadership here.

I really do see this legislation as being one that is pro-jobs, pro-small business, pro-equity.

Nothing in the Constitution requires America's leaders to stand by and do nothing while more people die from gun violence each year than die from military combat overseas.

I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, in the 116th Congress.

I implore you to pass legislation that will make us all safer.

Congress should immediately reinstitute the Assault Weapons Ban.

It is time that Congress repealed this outrageous law.

I urge you to expand Brady background checks by voting for H.R. 8.

Representative John Lewis reminds us that if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to take it from you.

At the core of democracy and the root word of 'demos' is to engage more voices, to engage more voices and to empower them in this democracy.