Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The direct testimony of the four individual witnesses here today are the bona fide words that this Committee must use in order to proceed or substantiate an investigation.

Two individuals presented today who do have firsthand accounts surrounding the progeny of these allegations are being blocked from testifying by the Republican Majority.

Any serious impeachment investigation or inquiry relies on firsthand sworn testimony of witnesses to high crimes or misdemeanors.

The allegations being presented by the Majority are extremely serious.

Democrats, we are authorizing 500,000 work permits so people can get on their feet and support themselves.

There is so much rhetoric out there blaming other countries and their dysfunctions for why people are coming to the United States, when we are engaging in interventionist policy abroad.

If we are serious about addressing this issue, we need to also make sure that we are opening and allowing people to be documented.

So, when we opposed work authorization, we have folks who are opposing the ability for people who are seeking a lawful process to support themselves who don't want to be a strain on public systems.

It is also placing migrants in a place where they would not be safe.

This is not about politics today. It is about our national resources; it is about opening a door to our national parks.

We cannot sustain it anymore. All of our hotels, any available housing are full.

President Biden showing up to the picket line on Tuesday is a historic, historic event. We have never seen in modern history a president show up to a picket line like this.

We need to have comprehensive immigration reform, so that we aren't constantly doing this patchwork of policy extensions.

I think, right now, we are in such a crisis in our economy, a crisis of inequality, that it is going to take a level of political and popular support unlike that that we've seen in a strike situation like this in recent and modern history…

I think that he has also engaged in just absolutely terrible decision-making for the American people.

Speaker McCarthy has been very weak. I think that he has also engaged in just absolutely terrible decision-making for the American people.

I do believe that it is in the best interest for Senator Menendez to resign in this moment.

I think we need to reexamine the nature of these sanctions.

I definitely think that we need to have comprehensive immigration reform, so that we aren't constantly doing this patchwork of policy extensions.

I think it always has to be earned. And President Biden showing up to the picket line on Tuesday is a historic, historic event.

Republicans are trying to distract us from the internal dysfunction which is steering our Nation toward a government shutdown.

The money is there. The question is how we as elected officials choose to invest in our communities.

Student debt relief is a racial and economic justice issue.

As it stands, nearly a quarter of the United States' current carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters.

I want to ask about some of the downstream effects of developing something like the Willow Project, which many Americans were disappointed to see moving forward.