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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.
How cruel it is that Republicans in Congress would deny them that small comfort? In these dire situations, families forego treatment which has no hope of saving their baby's life and instead spend time comforting them and saying good-bye…
This weekend in my district, the Massachusetts Seventh, community members came together to celebrate Haitian Independence Day. There was much soup joumou, freedom soup, that was consumed. On January 1, 1804, Haiti became the first free…
For too long, our Nation's criminal legal system has been wrought with systemic injustices and biases and has prioritized cruelty at the expense of rehabilitation and justice. That is why we have a mass incarceration crisis. Nearly one in…
The United States Postal Service is much more than a delivery system. It is a lifeline.
Mr. DeJoy, maybe Congress should pass a law that forces you to receive all your income and prescriptions via postal mail.
we certainly will keep the pressure up until we see a restoration of equitable, reliable services, because every community deserves exactly that.
We have a moral responsibility to ensure that the Federal Government does not forget the people it serves.
Every community deserves to be seen, heard, and invested in, and there should be no erasure.
the arguments that we are hearing here this morning that immigrants should not be counted is un-American.
This is based on a political desire, one, to identify immigrants in a time and a place when immigrants are being targeted.
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