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Ayanna Pressley

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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.

Quotes by year · 201120261,152 total · peak 2019 (443)
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Jan 14, 2020

Letter from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

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Jan 14, 2020

I worked with my colleagues Representative Clarke and Representative Tlaib on legislation to protect those living in HUD public housing from this technology.

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Jan 13, 2020

HUD does not use eviction rates as a tool for grading public housing authorities (PHAs), correct?

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Jan 13, 2020

The reality is that most Americans struggle in order to realize the American Dream, which means that what is synonymous with the American experience is hardship.

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Jan 13, 2020

Eviction isn't just the condition of poverty. It is a cause of poverty.

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Jan 13, 2020

We have broken families because of broken systems and broken promises, and, I think, because of a deficit of empathy.

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Jan 13, 2020

It is odd but consistent that this Administration's modernization efforts betray the fundamental mission of what they hope to modernize.

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Jan 8, 2020

Census data is used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal funding for health care programs.

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Dec 19, 2019

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 697. =========================== NOTE =========================== December 19, 2019, on page H12220, ``*ERR08*'' inadvertently appeared at two places. The online version has…

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Dec 17, 2019

Due to flight delay issues, I was unable to vote in support the following votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 683, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 684, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 685, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 686, and…

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Dec 9, 2019

I find that I have that dual experience often on this committee of comparable pride of our honoring the words of our late chairman in being in efficient and effective pursuit of the truth and simultaneous shame with all of the efforts to…

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Dec 9, 2019

At the very least, we should regulate the use of talc or add warning labels to the products, but, ideally, we need to get this stuff off the shelves.

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