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.
There is also a bill that I submitted that every public school should be tested for the water.
A basic human need to live as a human being is water, food, and shelter, and water must be clean, it must be safe, and it must be affordable.
Eighteen million dollars has been appropriated for research and study of PFAS. It is just the beginning.
We not only have to investigate Wolverine, 3M, and DuPont and other companies for their egregious and reckless actions.
I am not going to get here and allow the committee to be used by anybody, even from the other side, to say that e-cigarettes, vaping, JUUL is not killing our people.
But, Chairman, it is important to note what astounded me the most is they deleted Facebook and Instagram, but JUUL's Twitter followers, half of them are under the age of 18.
Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank all of the witnesses for being here.
I hate calling it regulations because they have hijacked that word. It is called accountability.
JUUL, from a number of folks up here, has misled the American people, has lied, has used our broken system to honestly target and then manipulate.
There is a definition--there is a definition of putting corporations over people.
But yet, they had the energy to come to Michigan to speak with Wolverine executives and yet, not--that they--you know, yet they would not come to people like you to tell you that they are poisoning you and that, to me, is reprehensible.
But that is not nearly enough, and we all know that, to really truly stop this and prevent it from happening over and over again.
I am sincerely very fearful as well of the human cost, and I want to thank so much Ms. Wynn-Stelt for your heartbreaking story, for sharing that, and for exposing what it looks like to do nothing with corporate polluters and what the…
Detaining people in itself for a very long time, even if they're families, is inhumane and it's harmful.
I believe that CBP agent--I really truly do--and that throwing money at this, continuing this isn't working.
But it contradicts in the way you said by using that word. I think be cautious.





