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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.
Ever since Donald Trump was voted out of office by an overwhelmingly majority of voters in our country, he and his allies, led on the ground by Arizona State Senator--Senate President Karen Fann, have sought to turn Arizona into the poster…
I know that in my community, we witnessed firsthand the radical backers of the former forever-impeached President's attempt to prevent votes from being counted in one of the most beautiful blackest cities in the country, the city of…
LUMA has received millions of dollars, and stands to receive billions more in an attempt to privatize the grid in Puerto Rico over the next 15 years.
If you want to get in the business of providing a public good, and for the Federal Government to subsidize it, then you understand that those salaries are also the public salary.
Privatizing electrical service is a disaster for the Puerto Rican people, because private utilities serve investors, not the public.
While Puerto Rico may be very far from my district, the problems we are talking about seem so familiar.
It is incredibly important for us to understand the connection between many of our districts and what is happening to the Puerto Rican people.
Would prohibiting government officials like Members of Congress, the President, or members of the Board of Governors from holding or trading individual stocks limit conflict of interest and potential insider trading?
The American people are very angry--it is [inaudible] where, again, they are in the position of public trust and folks are using that position for their own personal interests.
I am very alarmed, as you all know, about the recent disclosures regarding several Federal Reserve officials who have made transactions during the pandemic that I believe violated the Fed's ethics guidelines and may have violated the law.
I also call on my colleagues to support the Build Back Better Act, which would make critical investments to upgrade our infrastructure so that we can be better prepared for future disasters.
I urge all of my colleagues to support the Federal Agency Climate Prep Act, the bill I introduced today that would ensure that the Federal Government has a comprehensive plan to tackle climate change, coordinated by the White House, and in…
I've seen it. My folks have been flooded, I think, four times just in the last two months.
I want us to really focus on the fact that we haven't invested, I think, the critical amount of money, the kind of bold, meaningful investment that we need to really address the fact that we have a climate crisis in our country.
You want to save lives? Start investing in tearing down structural racism in our country.
I am really just incredibly frustrated of the gaslighting, the misleading, and trying to say you are speaking on behalf of my black neighbors.
Black lives matter should be very much at the forefront in every policy that we ever do in this country.
No, this is about controlling women in our country, period. Stop pretending that it is anything but.
I cannot believe that my colleagues, who didn't vote for the George Floyd Justice for Policing Act, are talking about the fact that Planned Parenthood, which I believe is literally one of the only healthcare places and institutions in…
Thank you so much, Chairwoman Maloney, for your courageous stance and also using the House Oversight Committee to take a deeper dive into the impact of what happened in Texas, there, as well as across the country.
I look forward to supporting the future legislation aimed at comprehensive decriminalization of possession for personal use of these substances and strongly encourage my colleagues to support this commonsense bill. Lastly, it is a personal…
They are using more resources to go toward a so-called Iron Fist Program of some sort against black identity extremists over active violent white supremacist groups.
I am very concerned about an exception that gives way for systemic, I think, targeting, I believe, in black Muslim and immigrant communities.
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