I have a bill, the MOMMA's Act and in that bill I talked about Medicaid coverage for a year and I wanted it to be--to have to be for every state.
60 percent of maternal deaths are preventable.
Black mamas are disproportionately and needlessly dying.
This crisis demands urgent attention and serious action to save the lives of Black mothers.
The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality is worse than it was 25 years ago.
I do have a bipartisan bill, H.R. 1350, Senate colleague Senator Brown and Toomey and my House colleague, Bob Latta.
By excluding jobs held by Black and Brown workers from basic worker protections, the FLSA inserted institutional racism ...
We must end the racist exclusion of farm workers from FLSA's overtime protection.
I know this because I have lived it. In fact, my mother and grandmother were domestic workers.
I thank Representative Grijalva for his leadership fighting racist exclusion of farm workers from overtime.
President Biden's American Jobs Plan commits among other things to address critical infrastructure needs at our K-12 sch...