Alma Adams

Simply put, each of us here today believes workers should receive fair pay and fair treatment for their work.

Each of us in this room has a responsibility to ensure that workers are properly treated as employees when in fact they are employees and provided the protections that they are guaranteed under the law.

Today's hearing is an opportunity for this committee to come together, build upon state level efforts and take concrete bipartisan steps toward improving the lives of workers across the country.

As a former educator and somebody who educated primarily first-generation low-income students of color, this is a very personal issue for me.

Student debt is a problem for all young people but particularly for low-income students who are predominantly people of color.

We need to start keeping our promises.

The purchasing power of the Pell Grant has been drastically reduced.

Many on this committee are too familiar with the alarming statistics on maternal mortality in this country.

I am concerned that the Trump Administration's rulemaking which will allow health providers to deny care to pregnant women will only exacerbate the maternal mortality crisis that we are facing.

That is why my colleague, Congresswoman Underwood, and I founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus just a month or so ago.

If anything, it takes away from freedom from the millions of women who need lifesaving care.

The attacks on Title X and on the ACA's contraceptive mandate and on ACA's anti-discrimination protections are an attack on the civil rights of millions of Americans.

making an investment in diversity and inclusion is not only the right thing or the moral thing to do; it makes good business sense.

Yet, the Administration is again threatening to circumvent Congressional intent, this time to roll back categorical eligibility and to take food assistance away from children, families, veterans, disabled, and older Americans.

In December, the President signed into law a bipartisan farm bill which many of us here helped to negotiate in good faith.

It is my hope that we can strengthen and reauthorize the Bank well in advance of the September expiration date.

The Export-Import Bank has been critically important in boosting North Carolina's economy and creating good-paying jobs.

HBCU's are producing 17 percent of all bachelor's degrees that are earned by African American students, 24 percent of all STEM graduates.

the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental.

I am happy that the Fiscal Year 2020 Labor HHS Appropriation bill includes much needed increases in funding for HBCU's.

education is the pathway to greater opportunity.

where you start out in life doesn't have to determine where you are going to end up or just how far you can go.

Senators Doug Jones and Tim Scott and Representatives Alma Adams and Mark Walker recently introduced the FUTURE Act.

I want to start off by mentioning that I am a proud co-sponsor of H.R. 1230, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.

We also know that older workers are consistently given the short end of the stick.