Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Now, I think it is important for us to note this because this is not just about future investments.

I urge all my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to work together to ensure that the ongoing climate emergency does not become a climate catastrophe.

Isn't that right, Ms. Salter?

When the water comes and when the floods come, which communities are going to be endangered and vulnerable the most?

When the storms come, which communities have the most fragile power grids?

Make sure to require co-pollutant tracking and accounting and demand cumulative impact analysis.

When the standard has been used in New York, we have seen success.

I am a deep believer in popular and public education on these issues, so I invite all of you to consider me your climate auntie.

What's more important than our planet's health, than our children's health?

Please make sure the American Jobs Plan is broad, too.

The purpose of this hearing is the climate emergency. It is the climate crisis that we're confronting.

I applaud President Biden for centralizing the response of vaccines, getting them out quickly.

If this resulted in a large population of people being evicted due to this mismatch in timing and fund distribution, could that precipitate almost a secondary public health crisis and concern due to displacement and homelessness?

I would beseech my colleagues, if they represent a State where their governor is of their same party, to be unafraid to hold your own party governors accountable.

The checks have gone out. That money has been disbursed. And the reason for the holdup is because governors, mayors, municipal governments are not getting it out to people, correct?

This bill is absolutely a progressive victory because if it wasn't for progressives in the House, we probably would be stuck with that tiny, pathetic bipartisan bill alone.

Yet before the pandemic, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent without triggering inflation, correct?

My concern, just to be frank, is that a misplaced diagnosis playing out with inflation could cause the Federal Reserve to prematurely raise rates and constrain wage and employment gains that have been beneficial to millions of Americans.

Recently, the Bureau of Labor Standards (BLS) reported that the first 3 months of 2021 were the best quarter of wage growth since at least 2001.

There's always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust, that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many…

It may sound strange, but many affluent suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defunding of the police in that they fund schools, they fund housing and they fund health care more as their number one priorities.

I think it`s very important for the President to know that House progressives and I believe the Democratic Caucus is here to ensure that he doesn`t fail.

In my home state in New York, women make up about half of New York's labor force.

So, we see that dads having--and nonbirthing parents taking equitable paid leave is good for the parent.

The decision and the ability to have paid leave is not about how good or charitable your employer is.