Cori Bush

The evidence is clear. We've witnessed it with our own eyes. The Bureau has a White supremacy problem within its ranks.

I am concerned about the FBI's treatment of protesters.

I am intimately aware of the tactics the Bureau has used when surveilling and investigating and intimidating activists like myself.

The ongoing and racist war on drugs has been waged on black and brown families like those in my district, all the while allowing people like the Sacklers to evade accountability.

For St. Louis, this hearing could not be more urgent. This is a crisis that has touched so many in my district, but its devastation has disproportionately been borne by black families.

It is imperative that we hold the Sacklers accountable, but it is also imperative that we build systems that support black and brown people.

There should be no doubt that what the Sackler family has done is absolutely criminal. They are the chief architects of this crisis.

I think there are serious structural problems with our criminal justice system and mass incarceration in our country.

People in my district are no strangers to gun violence.

It is time to fully fund and support community led and develop solutions to address the causes of trauma and of gun violence.

For years we have watched our neighborhoods, our schools, parks, and infrastructure underfunded or actively defunded.

We are picking up the slack. I just feel like if you can sell the same exact drug elsewhere for a fraction of the price there is no reason that people should be forced to pay high prices here, such high prices.

We all want to incentivize the development of new medicines, we do, but there is a difference between turning a profit and profiteering off of patients and families all over the world.

We can't continue to let Big Pharma keep getting rich on life-saving medicines that people need to survive.

We treat trauma with more trauma.

In my home State of Missouri, Black youth account for 15 percent of our youth population; yet, receive 27 percent of referrals to juvenile court.

These zero-tolerance policies regularly do not take into account the social conditions in which children may live, unsafe and unstable housing; lead exposure, which is no fault of their own; cyclical violence and trauma in their community…

The stereotype that Black and Brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma.

It is this fear of Black and Brown youth, long labeled super-predators, that has made jailing and sentencing them to life without parole too easy and too common.

At Trump's January 6 rally, he told the crowd, 'If you don't fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore.'

I think it is disgusting that we have colleagues on this hearing who won't acknowledge Black women suffering, that there are stark differences in our pain.

The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.

Today's conversation is a necessary step in the work to address the Black birthing crisis in our country, a crisis rooted in our Nation's legacy of slavery, let us be clear.

I've watched this system fail dying patients.

It's outrageous that providers would make referrals for potential donor patients to an OPO, and yet the OPO will not go to the hospital to assess the patient.