"If we`re only talking about the bipartisan infrastructure package, we`re going to make sure that we set up white men. We`re going to make sure we set up white men. Will some people of color get help? Yes. But we`re basically setting up white men, but we`re leaving out immigrants, black women, brown ..."
"I would be an absolute no on it if it is not together with the build back better act."
"I will not be that person that steps up and agrees with that. I`m going to make sure that each and every person in my community is able to live a decent quality of life, if I have anything to do with ..."
"I sit before you as a black Congresswoman with asthma caused by fossil fuels and the tear gas you fund."
"Developing fossil fuels now given the escalation of the climate crisis and its harm on black and brown communities is unconscionable."
"For years, you all have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities."
"Are black communities like mine in St. Louis expendable to you?"
"If we didn’t have both bills going together that I would be no, that would not change."
"Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says no person who works in rebellion to the United States should be -- should hold the office of senator, representative or president."
"The fact that we have people, like Josh Hawley, the senator from my state who represents my district, to put his fist up to those folks, they weren`t protesters, those folks were insurrectionists."
"Absolutely. Absolutely, she should be expelled and anyone else, any other Congress member especially in the House."