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Stacey Plaskett is a U.S. Representative for the U.S. Virgin Islands, having served since January 6, 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on legislation that addresses the unique needs and challenges of her constituents in the Virgin Islands. Plaskett has been involved in various legislative efforts, particularly in areas such as economic development, education, and healthcare. She is the first woman to represent the Virgin Islands in Congress and has played a significant role in advocating for the territory's interests at the federal level.
Kevin McCarthy is not interested in talking about voting rights, creating a jobs bill that will continue to lift this country out of the issues that it has, and why are we continuing to point the finger on individuals that are trying to…
I think what Maxine Waters says was that we should confront the system that's created, the individuals have to being out there to protest.
I think that this is a red herring that the defense counsel is trying to bring. He doesn't have a case, as we saw from the supposedly expert witnesses that he brought forward.
I ask that this include provisions to not only reverse the inequitable funding cuts endured by the Territories for almost 30 years now.
The American people need the certainty to count on stable and strong investment in infrastructure.
The American Jobs Plan offers us a historic opportunity to build on the Moving Forward Act.
Supporting the movement of people, goods, and information through our infrastructure is crucial to driving investment in our communities.
It is my primary request that the bill reported out of this committee to implement the American Jobs Plan... will lay the groundwork to do that.
I am asking for one-fifth of a penny for progress, one-fifth of a penny for the people living in the Territory.
The injury that the former president exacted on them as individuals and on us as a people has to be punished.
I believe that they will find even more evidence than was available to us at the time of the impeachment trial.
I just wanted to submit for the record--I know that leadership on the committee has received a letter from Governor Bryan of the Virgin Islands.
This is a bipartisan request. If you have seen all of the Members of the territories, we are not just Democrats.
Listen, to have us continually come and beg you for money to be treated equitably is absolutely unfair.
I am grateful that the committee took action to address the Medicaid cliff in the past to provide an additional stream of Medicaid funds from my home in the Virgin Islands and the other territories.
The consequences of his conduct were devastating on every level. Police officers were left overwhelmed, unprotected. Congress had to be evacuated, our staff barricaded in this building, calling their families to say goodbye.
The fact that black people organized, that they exerted their constitutional right to vote is just something that he cannot withstand.
This is the evidence we have heard now but history is going to unfold even more. And where are you going to be at the end of that unfolding, of that revealing of who this man really was and the assault that he was attempting to make on our…
I think they`re just more open, they`re more comfortable. It came from the divider in chief, Donald Trump, for four years. He got away with it and so they think that this is par for the course now that they can engage in this kind of…
The assault that he was attempting to make on our democracy and on our election system?
Even just talked about with farmers, we all know that black farmers have been discriminated against in the time, that they have gone from farming larger percentage of farming in America to a minuscule amount and the support that they need…
How dare you say the black lives matter black people do not understand old-fashioned families? Despite some of the issues, some of the things that you have put forward that I have heard out of your mouth in the Oversight Committee, in your…
How dare you say that we are not interested in families in the black community? That is outrageous.
This is just an example of what we`re going to see trickling out over a period of time moving forward.
We've got to pass the Voting Rights Act to ensure that all Americans have the right to vote.
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