Cori Bush

Most people still don't know what is happening even right now.

Take care of your people and that`s what I`m doing. That`s what Saint Louis deserves. That`s what this country deserves.

True COVID-19 relief means raising the minimum wage to at least $15.00 per hour. No matter what the Senate Parliamentarian says, run us our money. That`s what Saint Louis and the country deserves, nothing less.

Pay me a wage that is decent because the work that I`m doing is decent.

I spent more than 400 days in the streets of Ferguson and during that time, while a lot of you all speaking were nestled sweetly in your beds...

Our reliance on the police State is entirely misplaced.

There are not fine people on both sides. There is simply no comparison.

We cannot equate White nationalist violence with what my colleagues on the right stated is left-wing extremist violence.

(U//FOUO) Black Identity Extremists (BIE) Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers.

Had we had our liberation, he wouldn't have had to fight.

Money isn't everything. It is not about giving money.

The Federal Government has a significant role to play.

I come as one, but I speak as many. I bring with me today my family... and generations of Black men and women who have labored on this land.

We hope that the Federal Government will support the efforts and the recommendations we make.

I cannot sit idly by and allow white supremacy and hatred to have decision making power over our students' futures.

We can`t build a better society if members are too scared to stand up and act to reject the white supremist attack that happened right before our eyes.

White supremacy is a disease that turns cruel and hateful ideas into cruel and hateful policies that affect people.

Family separation is rooted in our Nation's history, let us be clear, harking back to black children being torn from their mothers' arms at slave auction blocks.

I strongly believe that we must remove the threat of criminalization and provide families with full amnesty and clear their records.

According to your report, at least two parents were told by officers that their children were being taken for a bath. That was the last time they saw their children.

It is essential that we reunite these families together.

If you don’t believe in that, if you don’t believe we should have safety, if you don’t believe that this is a true health crisis where 400,000 people in this country have lost their lives, if you won’t, if you will not honor that and…

You should care enough about your colleagues and if you don’t believe in that, if you don’t believe that we should have safety, if you don’t believe that, that this is a true health crisis where a 400,000 people in this country have lost…

They deserve that. And what I cannot do is continue to look over my shoulder wondering if a white supremacist in Congress by the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene or anyone else, because there are others, that they are doing something or…

We have a mandate to legislate in defense of black lives. The first step in that process is to root out white supremacy starting with impeaching the white supremacist in chief.