Ayanna Pressley

I thank Congresswoman Tlaib for her leadership in founding the Mamas' Caucus. I appreciate the way in which wherever she sees a gap, she seeks to fill it. I also appreciate what an incredible role model she is and the righteous…

This decline is not a coincidence nor happenstance. Rather, it is a direct consequence of bank regulators' failure to enforce antitrust laws in the banking sector.

Bank mergers, in so many cases, have proven to harm consumers with higher prices and more fees, lower deposit rates, less access to credit, and bank branch closures.

It is well past time for bank regulators to review bank mergers through an antitrust lens and with a consumer protection perspective.

By uplifting our small business owners and strategically investing in affordable housing, inclusive development, accessible spaces, we can ensure that downtowns leverage commercial real estate to emerge from this pandemic better than…

I really do think this should be a national model that is backed by Federal investment.

The truth is that America needs DEI to disrupt systems of oppression that are active in every facet of our society.

Republicans voted to stop the hiring of DEI personnel in the military despite evidence that it will improve military readiness.

Republicans sought to defund the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education.

This Republican Majority has demonstrated it is out of touch with the priorities of everyday people.

Colleagues across the aisle have waged an all-out war on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Republicans consistently use harmful rhetoric at every opportunity to undermine the talent, knowledge, skills, and the training of professionals in every sector where DEI initiatives exist.

Anti-Asian racism is pervasive in this country. Republican rhetoric and policies have helped to normalize it.

Racial slurs are not a national security strategy.

We should address that issue seriously, and we can and must do so without stigmatizing and discriminating against people based on their identities.

The Chinese Communist Party is adept at Russian propaganda efforts to interfere in our elections and advance its own objectives.

As policymakers, we have the responsibility to weigh our words carefully, especially during discussions like the one that we are having here today.

Our constituents are depending on us to help them, not endanger them with racist rhetoric.

These Republican attacks against the Bureau are baseless. They do nothing to support or benefit the people, our shared constituents.

Despite this, Republicans are trying to overturn this rule. They are choosing to defend a deeply exploitive late fee practice.

People are certainly entitled to their opinions, but not to their own version of the truth.

According to a recent poll, 82 percent of all voters, including 77 percent of all Republicans, support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its mission to protect consumers.

This is deeply unjust.

I will continue to fight to affirm abortion care as the fundamental human right that it is.

Unlike Republicans, I have no interest in playing games with people's lives, and this is gravely serious.