Mifepristone is a safe, effective, and routine form of healthcare that remains necessary and legal across the Nation.
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.
As part of their draconian, unpopular goal for a national abortion ban--let us call it what that is--forced birth, which for many will result in forced death, Republicans continue to try to block access to medications, like mifepristone…
I am disappointed that the final rule is significantly weaker. It fails to fully deliver the informational Scope 3 emissions that investors want, and this has consequences for millions of workers and families.
I think that is what some people might refer to as fake news, when, in fact, at the last hearing on providing transparency for investors by requiring climate disclosure, I was encouraged to hear SEC Chair Gensler confirm on the record that…
This is not the time to backtrack and to weaken regulations. This is the time to strengthen them.
I think all of us are concerned about the integrity of our elections based on artificial intelligence and generative AI.
The previous Administration, for example, has an abysmal record of using technology to incarcerate and to persecute communities of color.
AI algorithms trained on skewed, inaccurate, or unrepresentative data magnify human biases, lead to discriminatory outcomes.
To suggest that the White House is overstepping, especially when just last week, this Subcommittee heard devastating testimony on AI's infringement on the privacy and civil rights of women and girls. So that overreach characterization is…
Donald Trump has demanded that Joe Biden be impeached, has enlisted Oversight Republicans to do his dirty work
When Elijah Cummings was the Chair of this Committee, he often reminded us that our role was to be in efficient and effective pursuit of the truth.
I worry for my 15-year-old daughter, who will think that it is normal, a conflated part of her identity as a girl or a woman in this country, to experience these indignities and these violations.
As a survivor of intra-family childhood sexual abuse myself, I must say, I really do look forward to a day where families and children do not have to weaponize and relive their trauma in order to compel action from their government.
The Republican Majority is trying to defund our nation's financial intelligence unit by cutting the budget of FinCEN.
Do you agree that racism and racial inequity is a threat to the financial system?
Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts Seventh, this time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income…
I thank Chair Comer and Representative Raskin for advancing this legislation. I also thank my Massachusetts colleagues and our delegation for the unanimous support of this effort. I rise today to recognize Caroline Chang, a community…
If we defeat the previous question, we will bring up legislation to protect a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions, the Women's Health Protection Act. This is necessary because Republican bills being brought to the floor…
I thank Congressman Larson for his inspired and indefatigable leadership on this critical issue. As someone who represents nearly 100,000 Social Security beneficiaries in the Massachusetts 7th and as a co-chair for the Task Force on Aging…
Jamaal Bowman is fighting for you, and I am fighting for you right alongside him. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this resolution. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Ms…
This report found that in Boston, when White applicants applied for a mortgage, the denial rate was approximately 5 percent. But for Black and Latinx applicants, the denial rates were 15.3 percent, and 12.7 percent, respectively. This is…