Yvette Clarke

I believe that this requires that we have a secured environment in which to have this conversation.

Public health experts have been warning for months that an eventual vaccine, while critical, will not be a silver bullet that instantly kills off this pandemic.

We need a champion. And between her and Joe Biden, we couldn't have asked for a greater champion.

Kamala Harris not only talks the talk, she walks the walk. And I think that, you know, the American people will feel her, will see her, will identify with the fight that she's putting up to redeem the soul of America.

Joe Biden could not have picked a stronger, more diligent woman to stand by his side to bring this victory home in 2020.

The impact of lack of access to clean water is significant from disrupting people's daily lives to forcing untenable choices between paying for water or rent, to causing a wide range of health problems.

Our Nation's drinking water standards are in need of serious reform.

This has been an abysmal failure, for anyone to try to justify the lack of urgency and the lack of continued preparation for this pandemic across this Nation

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic I signed a letter calling on the White House to invoke the Defense Production Act to meet the shortfall of PPE and other official supplies.

These important findings will make a difference in life and death across this Nation.

This administration, and I also believe your companies, have failed to put safety first.

Given the lack of testing in ICE facilities, we all know that true number is much, much higher.

We know that more than 3,000 immigrants in ICE custody have tested positive for the coronavirus.

When you are in the business of detaining immigrants and implementing the policies of this administration, you don't get to just answer to your stakeholders.

We also know that much more could be done to protect immigrants in custody from COVID-19.

We must work together to find a solution to these disparities.

The protests and public outcry during this past couple of weeks over the killing and abuse of black women and men at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve them, add to this the disparities that have been laid bare in recent months…

I think this is both an extremely important and extremely relevant hearing for us to be having in this particular moment in our Nation's history.

The COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, has shown us perhaps more clearly than ever that issues of environmental justice do not simply exist alone amongst themselves in a vacuum.

This intersectionality is undeniable.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. As vice chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I rise today in support of the CARES Act. My colleagues have spoken about the provisions of this bill, and although it is not perfect, it is a…

I think many of us in Congress were shocked and disappointed that the administration's initial proposed amount for the emergency supplemental was only $2.5 billion.

This isn't a hoax, in the words of the White House. It is not an apocalypse, either.

Doctors, not politicians, need to be in the driver's seat as we combat this global outbreak.

This crisis is serious, but we can mitigate the coronavirus if we put science over scoring points.