the climate crisis is here. We need to do everything we can in our power and our purview to really, truly reduce our carbon footprint

I have seen it firsthand growing up in southwest Detroit.

Children can't learn if they are hungry. Well, I also believe that children can't learn if they can't breathe.

That is a form of structural racism. If you look at who is impacted, it is low-income communities.

So, when we talk about structural racism and we talk about this hearing, we have to really talk about the human impacts of what this means.

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

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I so appreciate this hearing because credit scoring has been something that impacts my community directly, as the third-poorest congressional district in the country.

We know it is expensive to be poor in our country; that we live in a country with a system that continues to put profit before our people, and it must stop. In my home State of Michigan, communities that are more than a quarter Black and…

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.

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

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

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