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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.
I believe the American public should know exactly how you and the Republican majority that invited you to testify today want to sabotage the EEOC, rewrite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and push all of us back to an era of Jim Crow racism.
PLAs are the mechanism for finishing projects on time and on budget while increasing diversity in the trades.
Valuing and affirming workers does not have to come at the expense of profits.
These opportunities hit close to home. Massachusetts is really leading the way in opening career paths for women in the trades.
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.
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.
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