In practice, I truly believe that we've become testing ground, the American public, most disturbingly our American youth.

What about traditional cigarettes? No.

You know, when I was your age, I used to go to restaurants with my parents, and they say, you know, right now, you go, and they say, 'How many people in your group?' When I was little, they said, 'Nonsmoking or smoking section?'

One of the things that we constantly talk about is no taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'

Yet, that they are deprived of having their elected officials vote in Congress, one of the most fundamental principles underlining our Constitution.

No taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'

transformative change doesn't happen because it starts in the halls of Congress. It happens because of movement work

I feel in many ways all the residents of the Washington D.C. area--in the District of Columbia are being denied access to that representation.

We literally had toxic gas leaks from Marathon last week.

When people take to the streets to protest for environmental justice, they are standing up for their lives, their right to live.

Part of the way we fight back is funding the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, fully funding it.