"We cannot afford to limit our conversations on infrastructure to roads and bridges. Social infrastructure must be part of any bill we move forward if we are to maintain America's competitiveness in th..."
"I know that some of these issues may be beyond your committee's jurisdiction, but I ask that you please continue working with the other committees to ensure that the American Jobs Plan meets the ambit..."
"It is our duty as elected Members of Congress to uphold and defend the Constitution and to protect the rights of every single voter in this country."
"Congress cannot allow the access voters have to be rolled back yet again."
"States are responding to Americans' participation in democracy by moving to curtail access, introducing suppressive voting legislation at an alarming rate."
"It is time we encourage people to vote, rather than continuing to erect barriers that seek to suppress the votes and voices of communities."
"Our 2020 elections saw an unprecedented number of voters cast their ballots on or before Election Day, often using mail-in ballots."
"We were grateful that in 2019 a bipartisan effort between our Republican legislature and our Democratic Governor had expanded access to the ballot by allowing no excuse mail-in voting for the first ti..."
"we are hoping that our State legislature in Pennsylvania will listen to the election officials"
"I am particularly concerned about how pretrial practices impact juveniles in our criminal justice system."
"Since coming to Congress, just in the last two years, I have seen two juvenile detention centers in my district close after widespread abuse of the children who had been housed there."
"It is a program that is designed to deal with the War on Drugs, but it has a perverse financial incentive to have law enforcement target people to get their assets."