Black and Brown communities are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and we have been the most impacted by the failure of the government to clean up toxic waste.

I have a bill called the Protecting Access to Medication Abortion Act.

This has proven that the in-person dispensing requirement was never actually medically necessary.

Thank you for the work that the FDA has done to eliminate cumbersome restrictions on mifepristone.

House Republicans have spent dozens of hours of precious Committee time hearing testimony from nearly 20 witnesses on their baseless and increasingly embarrassing attempts to link President Biden to actions of his family members.

They have not been able to muster up any credible links between the President and his son's business dealings.

Donald Trump is the quintessential influence-peddler-in-chief.

Let us let today's hearing be the final nail in the coffin of this sham impeachment investigation.

For years, law enforcement and researchers have been monitoring violent white supremacist groups and their targeting of our country's power grid.

Democrats in Congress are doing the hard work to catalyze new climate-friendly solutions.

The time for change is now. This is quite literally a matter of life and death.

Black children in St. Louis are ten times more likely to visit the emergency room for asthma than White children.

Access to these basic utilities is a human right.

The price of energy poses a real problem for the people of St. Louis, but so does smog and greenhouse gasses, climate change, exacerbated superstorms.

In my opening statement, I spoke of my constituents in marginalized communities who bear the brunt of the high cost of burning fossil fuels for power generation.

This is absolutely unacceptable, and I applaud the Department of Justice for holding these bad actors accountable.

We need to get renewable energy onto the grid to reduce emissions.

This hearing is not a good faith oversight effort. It is just the latest in a long line of dysfunctional and destructive actions taken by this Republican majority.

We need to incentivize clean energy entrepreneurs to take prudent risks on these new projects.

The potential mishandling of classified information is a serious issue.

My colleagues may complain that investment in renewables in the power grid is interfering in private industry, but they always seem to forget that taxpayers pay about $20 billion every year in subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

The people of St. Louis know from personal experience that coal, the fuel of the 19th century that clouded their lungs for generations, is not the best way to power 21st century communities.

Despite this outcome, Republicans have used the Special Counsel's Report to further their longstanding effort to reelect the former White Supremacist-in-Chief Donald Trump.

Decades of pollution and overuse and overreliance on fossil fuels have disproportionately harmed Black and Brown communities in St. Louis and throughout the world.

The people of my community need to know their lights will turn on and the heat will kick in when they need it.