In Massachusetts, since February 2020, over 200,000 fewer people are employed, children in 12 percent of households do not have enough food to eat.

One thing is for sure, we need to be investing in people and in jobs, and thinking about transformational, bold policies.

Providing an opportunity for people to make informed investments in part of their financial planning is not a bad thing. However, targeting the vulnerable Americans who are receiving Federal relief during a pandemic suddenly is.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to reintroduce the People's Justice Guarantee, a bold, progressive vision to transform our criminal legal system from what it currently is to what it ought to be. For far too long, Congress has enacted policies that…

Despite the passage of the Fair Housing Act over a century ago, the National Fair Housing Alliance estimates that 4 million people in the U.S. still experience discrimination in housing each year.

One of the bills we are considering today, offered by my colleague, Congressman Al Green, would address this by increasing funding for Fair Housing Act enforcement.

Systemic racism must be met with intentional, decisive systemic solutions and Congress has to move with urgency to expand discrimination protections to include our LGBTQ+ neighbors and voucher holders.

Mr. Speaker, we must do right by the young organizers and activists who have fought for our democracy. They have a stake in our democracy, and they deserve to have a stake at the ballot box. Civil rights heroes like the late John Lewis…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my amendment to H.R. 1, the For the People Act. H.R. 1 is bold, transformative legislation, which fights voter suppression, promotes access to…

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 88, after line 8, insert the following: SEC. 1055. LOWERING MANDATORY MINIMUM…

the economy renders invisible and further marginalizes those workers consistently, who are the last ones hired and the first ones fired