Rashida Tlaib

I think moving it from 7 to 4 years can directly, dramatically, help our communities.

This hearing, you know, for my residents is important, as we really do our due diligence to oversee--have oversight of what our policies are and what the impact is.

85 percent of Americans--84 percent of Americans overwhelmingly want Congress to enact a national paid family and medical leave program.

The majority of my colleagues in Congress--and no offense to those that are doing well--the majority of them are millionaires.

They are sick and tired of corporations and corporate greed, really, having just a free-for-all of license to pollute their communities.

I want to talk to you about the Environmental Justice for All Act that I proudly co-sponsored.

I am incredibly proud to see a colleague that I came here in a historic class of firsts.

I hope in some ways we can always bring that public health aspect to it.

If we are going to fight the climate crisis with the scale and urgency necessary to save our planet, we must look toward ocean-based climate solutions as key pieces for our efforts.

I would love to share with our colleagues some of the fraudulent activity of opportunity zones by billionaires.

Act now and save millions of lives or wait, have it cost 10, 20 times more.

Every time we invest in these false solutions, it is an opportunity cost to our future, to equity, to climate justice.

Nothing is more apparent than that during COVID.

What does it truly mean to be forgotten when it comes to policy and when it comes to when you look at budgets that are coming out of Washington, DC, and it leaves communities like ours behind?

If you want to look at the economy, how the cost to the economy is when we do nothing, and, really, the human cost, to me, is something that we can't look away...

I really, truly want to talk about the human cost.

What I saw when Black Lives Matter protesters were here, and those defending the right to choose, it seemed like, all of a sudden, all of you had resources. You all had a plan then. Why is it when white supremacist terrorists show up here…

Why is it when white supremacist terrorists show up here to want to lynch the vice president, to attack the speaker, to attack our democracy, threatening the lives of Members of Congress, really, the lives of just the whole livelihood of…

Do you think if the people in that crowd looked brown or black, majority, do you think that we would be here in this hearing right now?

Do you think it would enable what we would, some would refer to white supremacist groups, domestic terrorist groups here, do you think it would enable them to continue to attack our Capitol and our democracy if we did not hold them…

Unfortunately, that is how, you know, again the January 6 attacks have been described in the past and it is really to downplay, excuse and, otherwise, defend this, really, violent attempt to overthrow our democracy and the Constitution…

It is incredibly important that no matter the intention, history shows us that every time we give our Government new powers in this area, they are inevitably used to target people that look like me, oppressed people of color, and minority…

The benefit of the doubt doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress.

The ultra rich pay nothing in taxes. When Bezos goes to space next month, he can keep his 'blank' there.

I am really tired of it. I am tired of us blaming our neighbors and talking about those subsidies, but we don't talk about the subsidies that kept many of these developers with a lot of profit.