Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think it is so important that that gets across, because there is no way that we can develop a plan, there's no way that I think you can develop a plan that is realistic unless we lift this burdensome requirement on you.

I don't think it's surprising that we've tied your hands. We've made your job impossible, and then we're upset that we've given you an impossible standard that you haven't been able to meet.

I would say that we created this problem. And I think that it's on us to fix it, at least in this specific respect, with retiree health benefits.

Thank you. Mr. Chair, I'd like to submit to the congressional Record two documents...

So there are areas in the country--let's say, Dr. Holder--there are areas in the country that previously may see diseases that they've never seen before.

So it was completely unnecessary for these kids to get lead in their blood. It was completely unnecessary for these families to live through winter without heat. It was completely unnecessary for these families and children to breathe in…

$32 billion. But what does that $32 billion in neglect look like?

Well, for more than 2 decades, the Federal Government neglected to make the New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA's) developments--they failed to invest in them for more than 400,000 New Yorkers.

In the aftermath of some of these major natural disasters, the survivors, and particularly young people, tend to see mental health costs.

Vector-borne diseases will be pretty detrimental to the U.S.

There are areas in the country that previously may see diseases that they've never seen before.

I spent a brief amount of time living in West Africa and there I had actually contracted malaria.

Dr. Goldstein, according to your written testimony, the last five years have been the hottest days on record for air and ocean temperatures.

We are not debating whether climate change is real and we are not debating any of those attendant effects.

China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources.

In a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. We are going to guarantee healthcare, housing, and education as rights. There is no other way around it.

This moment, this opportunity is a gift from the gods of liberal women in politics.

I do want to commend you for your decision, and Chase's decision to pull out of financing for private prisons.

In my district, I represent Rikers Island. I represent kids who go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metro card.

I was really going back and reviewing these last 10 years and I have concerns about how much things have really changed.

If you can write off billions of fines as the cost of simply doing business, how are overdraft fees anything other than an ideological tool to simply further punish the poor?

So these lobbyists were literally sitting right outside?

It seems from what we have dug up in history, that is absolutely true, is that some of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change came from within ExxonMobil.

The question is no longer whether someone will leave but when.

The fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for the development of solar panels is 'socialist' is just bad faith and it is incorrect.