Cori Bush

This was a racist attempt to overturn an election. This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voices of the black, brown, indigenous people's voices, trying to invalidate our votes, because we turned out in large numbers for this…

You know, we just introduced my first resolution. This is house resolution -- House Resolution 25 that is in place to hold our Republican colleagues accountable. You know, our Republican colleagues chose to do the work to try to overturn…

They should be kicked out of the House.

Those people who work -- those Congress members who work to help incite this insurrection; they must be expelled. They should not be able to be in the same space to do the exact same -- to vote to represent a district that is not only made…

Yes, it will make me a different congressperson.

Do you think that will make you a different kind of congresswoman? And in what way would you be different?

Yes, it will make me a different congressperson. For me, being someone who has lived out of my car. You know, let me tell you, that pain of the struggle that I've been through. I can still feel that pain right now. So, that pain is walking…

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman.

No more. Because you know what? Cori is in the house.

I am them, and they are me.

It's okay because we'll educate and we'll make sure that people know who she is, what she stood for, that she was an award winning EMT, you know, in her community, that she is someone who deserves justice right now.

I am Breonna Taylor as far as I could be a black woman murdered in my bed tonight, you know? But I am not Breonna Taylor. This Breonna Taylor was murdered in her bed at night, and she does not have justice of murder by the police.

If you take away the ACA, if you take away what I have to work with, how do I keep your family member alive? This just doesn't effect who you want it to effect. It will affect everyone.

The people want a fighter. They want a champion, somebody that they can believe in.

We want to take that money and put it into substance abuse programs, we're going to put that on education and mental health resources. We're going to take it and use for our un-house population. We are reallocating funds.

I stood on what I believed in and the people wanted that. The people want a fighter. They want a champion, somebody that they can believe in. So be that.

But I will stand with my progressive values. And I'm not going to back down on that.

So, absolutely, people had me underestimated.

I stand with them. And I'm going to continue to fight for them.