I serve in this august institution and this committee with colleagues across the aisle who deny science and the climate crisis.

In 2018 in Georgia, seven polling locations were suddenly closed by Republican lawmakers before the midterm election.

I just urge my colleagues to pick their heads up and to defend access to the ballot for everyone.

Millions of individuals across the Nation have been arbitrarily and permanently stripped of their right to vote due to involvement in the criminal injustice system.

We reject false choices that purport that access to the polls must be bartered between vulnerable and disenfranchised folks.

The great poet and pioneer of righteous rage, Audre Lorde, once said: ``I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.'' The year is now 2020, and here we women are, still in so many ways…

The March on Washington was actually the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedoms.

But again, did the Fed consider how raising rates would disproportionately impact those who were already struggling to secure employment?

Would more Americans have jobs today if the Fed had not increased rates over the past 3 years?

I know, having been raised by a tenants' rights organizer, that activism can be a full-time job.

I take special claim to the fact that Dr. King and Coretta actually met in Boston.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and I also want to thank the activists in the room who have been organizing for a more responsive Fed.