Cori Bush

I'm proud of my colleagues for standing firm in demanding that these insidious arbitration laws are prohibited.

Know that our job as Members of Congress is to see you and stand with you to build a society where what you endured never happens again to another person.

the failures in accountability for the misconduct and abuses you have endured are tantamount to policy violence, because this body has a responsibility to legislate safety and character in your workplaces.

The Build Back Better Act is a racial justice bill, community violence prevention, affordable housing expansion, supporting child care and eldercare workers, policies that are crafted to support black and brown folks. We need to get it…

If we`re only talking about the bipartisan infrastructure package, we`re going to make sure that we set up white men. We`re going to make sure we set up white men. Will some people of color get help? Yes. But we`re basically setting up…

Developing fossil fuels now given the escalation of the climate crisis and its harm on black and brown communities is unconscionable.

If we didn’t have both bills going together that I would be no, that would not change.

For years, you all have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities.

I sit before you as a black Congresswoman with asthma caused by fossil fuels and the tear gas you fund.

I will not be that person that steps up and agrees with that. I`m going to make sure that each and every person in my community is able to live a decent quality of life, if I have anything to do with it.

I would be an absolute no on it if it is not together with the build back better act.

Are black communities like mine in St. Louis expendable to you?

The fact that we have people, like Josh Hawley, the senator from my state who represents my district, to put his fist up to those folks, they weren`t protesters, those folks were insurrectionists.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says no person who works in rebellion to the United States should be -- should hold the office of senator, representative or president.

Absolutely. Absolutely, she should be expelled and anyone else, any other Congress member especially in the House.

Ratifying the ERA after over a century of struggle will help advance social, economic, and racial justice.

The Constitution is the problem. The Constitution has to be fixed. Nothing else will do it.

For me, if you know that your colleague is not doing something right, if you know your colleague is racist or has racist practices and you don't speak up, that means that you are not a good one, you are not a good police officer as well.

Are you aware that Black and Brown people are disproportionately stopped, searched, and arrested by police, often for a minor infraction?

Equal rights for everyone are still not codified in this country, and it shows.

Are you aware that from statistics we do have, we know that Black people are killed by police at three times the rate of White people?

Racialized violence is a policy choice. We can choose to subsidize it, or we can choose to stop it.

That is one Black person killed by law enforcement every two days. That is an undercount.

Racial inequality is a crisis in this country, and it is crucial we recognize and acknowledge the impact that ERA would have on our community.

In light of these realities, do you believe that systemic racism exists in law enforcement agencies?