"if Republicans take control of the House Majority after November's midterms, that legislation is all but dead in the federal level"
"When fossil fuel companies produce massive greenhouse gas emissions, St. Louis heats up."
"Communities like mine are suffering from the climate crisis right now."
"Big Oil will continue to prioritize profits over black lives until we intervene ourselves."
"We are here today talking about how fossil fuel industry needs to dramatically reduce emissions, but they are not."
"These women cannot hold you accountable, Mr. Carvajal, they cannot, but we can."
"Two weeks ago, I along with Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, we sent a letter seeking clarification..."
"In the midst of a raging pandemic that has made incarcerated individuals uniquely vulnerable, rather than allowing people to serve their sentences from their homes... the Federal prison population has..."
"I just wish I would have heard it be this loud and this big push for it when we were talking about mostly Black and Brown people."
"it is imperative that we prioritize the public health and safety of all people, not just those that agree with us politically."
"Our prisons are a petri dish for infectious disease outbreaks and the Bureau's policy to release thousands into home confinement under the CARES Act has reunited families and it has saved lives."