Ayanna Pressley

As we leverage Federal funding flowing from the Biden Harris Administration's historic investment in our Nation's infrastructure, we must do so in a way that addresses longstanding inequities.

I want every worker to know, we don't just care about your labor, we give a damn about your lives.

The BE HEARD in the Workplace Act is essential to protecting workers and ensuring accountability for discrimination, harassment, and abuse.

No one, and I repeat, no one, should ever be subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace.

I am just a firm believer that those closest to the pain should be closest to the power driving and informing the policymaking.

The FDIC must prioritize recourse for workers and accountability for wrongdoers.

Let me be clear. Those on the other side of the aisle do not come to this conversation in good faith.

It is extremely disappointing that this White House would choose to double down on the previous administration's harmful and flawed immigration policies.

How do we ensure that the green economy is inclusive to Black, Brown, low-income folks, especially those who have been hardest hit by this climate crisis?

How is the Department of Energy ensuring that marginalized communities benefit from job opportunities in the green economy?

Investing in electric vehicles is good for the environment. It is good for people's pocketbooks.

The climate crisis is real. The planet is not warming, as many experts have cited. The planet is burning.

We need oversight and accountability of Project 2025.

Abortion care would be inaccessible and illegal, no matter where you live.

It almost seemed as if you either get diversity or you get qualifications.

It did not seem as if my colleague understood that someone can be diverse and qualified.

If enacted, Project 2025 would destroy the Federal Government as we know it.

On page 6 of its playbook, Project 2025 states, 'The Dobbs decision is just the beginning.'

The Department of Justice would go on a murdering spree. It would rush to use the death penalty and expand its use to even more people while circumventing due process protections.

Project 2025 is a far-right manifesto. It is a 1,000-page bucket list of extremist policies that would uproot every government agency.

Schedule F, an executive order that would replace tens of thousands of civil servants with partisan sycophants, would destroy our government infrastructure.

This decline is not a coincidence nor happenstance. Rather, it is a direct consequence of bank regulators' failure to enforce antitrust laws in the banking sector.

Bank mergers, in so many cases, have proven to harm consumers with higher prices and more fees, lower deposit rates, less access to credit, and bank branch closures.

It is well past time for bank regulators to review bank mergers through an antitrust lens and with a consumer protection perspective.

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