"With this legislation, the committee has an opportunity to stand united in taking a significant step to uphold workers' rights and improve the lives of workers across the country."
"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 la..."
"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."
"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."
"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."