"A recent study found that nearly 2,000 lives could have been saved in Texas if it had reached the vaccination levels of places like Vermont or Connecticut."
"Shamefully, rural South Texas and all of rural Texas has been utterly devastated by COVID-19."
"We know that being unvaccinated makes you up to 17 times--17 times--more likely to die of COVID compared to people who are vaccinated and boosted."
"However, Republicans are going about reforms, in my judgment, in the wrong way today."
"This hearing today is another example of what some of our Republicans are calling so-called anti-woke agenda."
"Proxy advisers serve an important role in the market."
"ESG disclosures are about transparency. This benefits workers, consumers, and investors."
"ESG disclosures include information like quantitative and qualitative disclosures related to climate-related risks, and human capital disclosures like diversity and inclusion."
"I am introducing a bill today called the Workforce Investment Disclosure Act."
"By eliminating corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, Republicans are directly harming communities like mine in my district, which is 77-percent Latino and over 90-percent people of color."
"I sit on this committee to make sure that the most-marginalized people in our society have a champion..."