I'm a mother first and foremost, and these are our babies.

Healthier air means their employees don't take time off work to tend to sick loved ones.

Truth matters. It really does.

That's why I teamed up with our chairman, Chairman Rouda, and sent a letter today to the EPA requesting an investigation into Marathon's chemical release in Detroit.

Marathon will contact the authorities. They actually will watch from our porches--that's how close the refinery is to our homes--and watch workers get evacuated.

I represent a frontline community, where 48217 is the most polluted ZIP Code in the state of Michigan.

As a kid, she often threw up and had a headache after walking to school in southwest Detroit.

It seems to me that there is a lack of a sense of urgency in trying to help middle-class families not become targets of these criminal schemes.

the cost of that injustice has already been borne by black communities, native communities, and communities of color.

We are not here representing the banks and big corporations. We are elected by the people, not by them.

If you are a kid from a working class or poor background, or comes from poverty like I have, and if you get messages over and over and over again that you cannot exist in this society, that you cannot make it, that this society is racist…

The moral integrity of a Nation can be measured by how we deal with poverty, and by that measure, we are failing every single day in this country.