Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This myth that it is some person lurking on a street or in a parking lot waiting to sexually assault you... only benefits the abusers in power.

It is shameful that this education even needs to happen because this conversation shouldn't even be held in a legislative body.

I just would like the committee to note, that there is no currently existing protocol of what to do when a member of law enforcement is discovered to be part of an organization like the Ku Klux Klan.

So it sounds like there isn't a protocol for what to do when a police officer is found to be part of a white supremacist organization.

Now, what happens when the FBI does find instances of white nationalists in local law enforcement? What does the FBI do?

Police officers have been dismissed across the United States... for having ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

In a 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists infiltrating police departments, a coordinated effort.

The medium is the message. The time is now for child care, health care and climate action for all. Tax the rich.

It seems as though we have a very urgent issue, and I am so thankful to see Chairwoman Waters address these issues.

If you are a tenant and you want to make right on your back rent, and you apply for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, if your landlord has been trying to get you out, they can refuse, in the majority of programs, to accept your…

Many low-income renters struggled to make ends meet even before the pandemic.

We have lost 12 people in these floods, and the connection here is that in almost every person lost to the floods, it was related to our housing crisis.

We just experienced devastating floods for which my district was ground zero, in New York City, for the floods from Hurricane Ida.

This is about making sure that someone like me, as a woman, or any menstruating person in this country cannot make decisions over their own body.

I find Governor Abbott's comments disgusting, and I think there's twofold.

We have the capacity to transition to clean and renewable energy and create millions of good union jobs in order to transition to both our infrastructure and our energy system, as well as our power grid.

I think that in the year 2021, if any Member of Congress, whether it's a member of the House, or whether it's a member of the Senate continues to aid the fossil fuel lobbyists in advancing their agenda over the consensus of science, then…

The Build Back Better Act has popular support and even going above and beyond that, the Green New Deal has popular support even among Republicans and Independents.

I certainly don't think it's healthy that ExxonMobil lobbyists are bragging about how many senators, Democrat and Republican that they get to have on speed dial and enjoy exclusive access to shaping the contours of this quote-unquote…

I think we are. I think we absolutely are, because the question is not, if our entire world and our entire society is going to shift because of climate change, it's a matter of how it is going to shift.

Now, when it comes to climate change, we have to do so much more and the President's agenda, yes, is important. We must pass the Build Back Better Act, but it is not done until it is on the President's desk.

The promises that they offered, at the very least, can be held and kept. It`s our overall quagmire of what we have done over the last 20 years in Afghanistan.

I just unequivocally condemn anybody who says that these people are here to do harm.

The idea that we will now demonize them for helping the United States or at least, you know, assisting and trusting the United States is unconscionable.

It is no secret that the Trump administration carried out extremely xenophobic and racist immigration policies.