Shame on anyone that wants to use this to promote a candidate.

We see through history that so many people sat on the sideline.

I just want to be on the record, this is a very, very serious issue. I am a descendent of slaves.

As a black woman in America, having a double whammy, being a woman who was oppressed, being an African American.

On November 26, 2019, during the Thanksgiving holiday, a dock piled with aggregates collapsed into the Detroit River. Local and State authorities were slow to communicate with each other, and misinformation quickly spread. Concerns about…

I'm glad to see our community--our committee will be using our oversight authority to find innovative ways for the government to combat anti-Semitic and the rise in white supremacy ideology.

I'm here today as co-chair of both the Democratic Women's Caucus and also the entire bipartisan caucus for this Congress.

We need to be, as Congress, very proactive of setting ethical standards.

I think we need to pause the technology and let the rest of it catch up.

This year, I introduced H.R. 153 with my colleague Representative Khanna, regarding the need for the development of guidelines for the ethical development of AI.

Right now, we have the wild, wild west when it comes to AI.

Approximately 67 percent of my constituents are minorities, meaning the vast majority of my constituents have a higher likelihood of being misidentified by a system that was intended to increase security and reduce crime.

I feel strongly that if I am being--if my image is being used, I know, and I have a right to what are my rights.

We in America have the right to know if we are under surveillance, and what are you doing with it.

Today, history is being written. The facts are conclusive: The President attempted to use the power of the powerful Office of President to force Ukraine to influence our 2020 election. In the process, President Trump jeopardized our…

How dare you say you don't support $15 an hour. Because if you don't, you are stating that poverty in America should be a reality.

We, as the sophisticated, major force of democracy in this world, should not be one of the last to say that every person working and trying to provide for their family, regardless of their income, do not have access to paid family leave.

I count on government for a number of things. And to say that we don't need government to intervene on an issue that is going to be transformational for the quality of life of Americans is something that I feel very strongly about.

It is clear that only a comprehensive approach like the FAMILY Act will protect our workers, and I urge all of us to support it.

How can we, as a country who consider ourselves so great, embrace a philosophy and a standard that impoverishes people in America?

The issue of paid family leave is something I hear frequently about, ensuring that women and family and parents have the ability to preserve their economic security while continuing their employment in this country.

I stand today as the chair of the Women's Caucus and as a member of the executive board of the Congressional Black Caucus, and I stand in strong support of H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act. These repeated attacks on our right to…

More than 200 years ago, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to help chart a path forward for the newly independent United States of America. After deliberation, the Framers established a system of…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands for her leadership. It is imperative that we use our platform as Members of Congress to highlight the crisis of mental illness. So often when we talk about gun violence, it leaves the…

we should, as women in America, have the same choices that men have, without the government telling them what to do.