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Rashida Tlaib

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Rashida Tlaib is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Tlaib is known for her progressive policies and advocacy for social justice. She is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and has been a vocal advocate for issues such as affordable housing, environmental justice, and healthcare reform. Tlaib has also been involved in efforts to address systemic racism and economic inequality.

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Sep 15, 2019

Water is a human right, and so we are going to ensure that every single person has access to clean water.

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Sep 15, 2019

The Flint water crisis is an example of what happens when the needs of profit and industry are deemed more important than the needs of the people.

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Sep 15, 2019

We know that our communities, our neighbors, and our families are so much more important than corporate profit.

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Sep 15, 2019

I think that is the root of the problem.

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Sep 15, 2019

It helps elevate the work that we are doing on a national level if you are holding corporate polluters here locally accountable.

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Sep 15, 2019

So just know that all of your work is so important, and it is this partnership, this kind of level of partnership that is going to be able to get us transformative change for all of us in our communities.

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Sep 15, 2019

I really did think that smell was normal. No, I really thought that smell was normal.

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Sep 15, 2019

Most of what we are going to be able to do, not only fighting to restore the Civil Rights Act, to be able to challenge a lot of the injustice that we see in the courts...

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Sep 15, 2019

I am honored to bring Congress to the original Southwest Detroit in the zip code of 48217...

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Sep 15, 2019

Some have been at the front line of really trying to show what doing nothing looks like.

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Sep 15, 2019

We have a right to breathe clean air, and water is a human right.

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Sep 15, 2019

If they are only three percent and we go through all of this, and there is 97 percent worse, I mean, we are totally doomed.

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