Cori Bush

The title VI review puts us on a path toward accountability. We need only to enforce it.

this bill would allow the state legislature to override the popular vote in Presidential elections up through Inauguration Day, which is a blatant display of white supremacy.

Although the audit in Arizona failed to uncover any evidence of widespread fraud, it was successful in achieving its bigger goal, to pave the way for election subversion laws that are spreading across this country.

I was proud to support the $28 billion for victims of Hurricane Ida that Congress approved, but I was disappointed that 175 of my Republican colleagues voted against this bill.

The National Flood Insurance Program only supports people who can afford to buy flood insurance; almost precisely the opposite of how this program should work.

I call on my colleagues to support President Biden's Build Back Better Act.

Poor program design combines with unequal access to resources to worsen every single climate disaster that hits this country.

Thank you for being vocal about your commitment to improving equity in FEMA programs.

Congress also must act. Today, I reintroduced the Federal Agency Climate Prep Act.

Hurricane Ida was yet another graphic example of how unprepared our Nation is for increasingly dangerous climate disasters driven by fossil fuels.

It's an excellent policy change that we know will benefit many people.

Choosing to have an abortion was the hardest decision I had ever made, but at 18 years old, I knew it was the right decision for me.

It is crucial that we invest in climate resilience and post-disaster assistance to advance racial and economic justice so that we do not leave behind our most vulnerable communities.

To all the black women and girls who have had abortions and will have abortions, we have nothing to be ashamed of. In the summer of 1994, I was raped, I became pregnant, and I chose to have an abortion. Choosing to have an abortion was the…

My mind changed just being so deep into my church. And it wasn’t until later on, years later, that I started to realize, like, wait a minute, it should not be a partisan thing. It should be about humanity, humanity and then what is best…

I will not support and vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill that comes before reconciliation, because we know that reconciliation won’t happen.

Progressives, we have made it very clear that they have to go together. Those bills have to go together. Reconciliation has to happen. Build Back Better Act has to happen in the House and the Senate before we will vote on the bipartisan…

It is unconscionable, it is cruel, it’s inhumane. And we’re still in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

I cannot sit by and allow 8,700 people in my community to hit the streets. I can’t allow 11 million people all across this country to hit the streets. I will not. It is violence on people.

Congressman Bush says she isn’t giving up the fight.

We were outside the Capitol for five days. Rain, heat, cold. If they think this partisan ruling is going to stop us from fighting to keep people housed, they’re wrong. Congress needs to act immediately for every unhoused or soon to be…

What people don`t like is to see people unhoused in their communities.

Call it what you want to, but what people don`t like is to see people unhoused in their communities.

strengthen a moratorium. Have the moratorium go through the course of the pandemic. That is what we need to see right now.

I just felt like running on the inside of me, just go, go, go.