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Cori Bush

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Cori Anika Bush is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she is known for her advocacy on issues such as healthcare, racial justice, and economic equality. Bush gained national attention for her role in the Black Lives Matter movement and has been a vocal supporter of progressive policies in Congress.

Quotes by year · 20202026619 total · peak 2021 (207)
2020: 15 quotes2021: 207 quotes2022: 138 quotes2023: 186 quotes2024: 64 quotes2026: 9 quotes
Feb 28, 2022

Today Black people make up 20 percent of our country's Muslim population and are facing surveillance and criminalization.

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Feb 28, 2022

Now I believe we must build on the success of this committee's contributions for addressing this pandemic and make similar investments in ongoing emergencies, including the climate crisis.

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Feb 28, 2022

A study entitled, 'Fulfilling the Promise of Free Exercise For All: Muslim Prisoner Accommodation in State Prisons,' Muslim Advocates, submitted by the Honorable Cori Bush.

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Feb 28, 2022

The surveillance and criminalization of Muslims is older than this nation's founding.

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Feb 28, 2022

I am incredibly proud of the way St. Louis is pursuing evidence-based, community-informed expenditures, including $500 checks--checks--in direct cash, that are going to our community members that need it the most.

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Feb 28, 2022

The American Rescue Plan helped deliver over $700 million to our St. Louis region, an unprecedented and much needed infusion of direct assistance during this pandemic and economic crisis.

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Feb 16, 2022

Cori Bush says she won't stop saying `defund the police' despite pressure from other Democrats.

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Feb 9, 2022

if Republicans take control of the House Majority after November's midterms, that legislation is all but dead in the federal level

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Feb 7, 2022

When fossil fuel companies produce massive greenhouse gas emissions, St. Louis heats up.

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Feb 7, 2022

Communities like mine are suffering from the climate crisis right now.

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Feb 7, 2022

Big Oil will continue to prioritize profits over black lives until we intervene ourselves.

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Feb 7, 2022

We are here today talking about how fossil fuel industry needs to dramatically reduce emissions, but they are not.

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Feb 2, 2022

In the midst of a raging pandemic that has made incarcerated individuals uniquely vulnerable, rather than allowing people to serve their sentences from their homes... the Federal prison population has grown.

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Feb 2, 2022

These women cannot hold you accountable, Mr. Carvajal, they cannot, but we can.

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Feb 2, 2022

Two weeks ago, I along with Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, we sent a letter seeking clarification...

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Jan 20, 2022

I just wish I would have heard it be this loud and this big push for it when we were talking about mostly Black and Brown people.

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Jan 20, 2022

we have to be decarcerate, we have to grant clemency and move people out of prisons and jails and back home to be with their families and in their communities.

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Jan 20, 2022

it is imperative that we prioritize the public health and safety of all people, not just those that agree with us politically.

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Jan 20, 2022

Our prisons are a petri dish for infectious disease outbreaks and the Bureau's policy to release thousands into home confinement under the CARES Act has reunited families and it has saved lives.

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Jan 20, 2022

I ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter that Congresswoman Watson Coleman and I led today seeking clarification from BOP on the implementation of the new OLC guidance for those on home confinement pursuant to the…

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Jan 18, 2022

It is essential that TransDigm pay back the $20.8 million it made in excess profits as a result of this price gouging.

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Jan 18, 2022

Despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars every year, the DOD has never detailed its assets or undergone a complete clean audit.

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Dec 21, 2021

anyone who had a part in this who was a sitting member of Congress should be removed from office, should be removed from Congress, because they essentially violated their oath of office.

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Dec 8, 2021

If anything, he`s clearing the path for these extremists to have even louder voices as he makes a way for them in the hopes of, what, the coming speakership?

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Nov 16, 2021

Being fiscally responsible also has to start with how you save lives. And so that is the work. And so I`m just urging all of our colleagues to look at this and see what`s in these bills and decide humanity over profits, humanity over…

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