Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague, Representative Bowman, for his incredible leadership. It has been a true honor to serve with the gentleman in the Progressive Caucus, this Special Order hour has always been the Progressive Caucus' Special Order hour led in his very capable hands and also to be able to serve with him on the Education and Labor Committee. The gentleman brings tremendous power to the actual experience of education through his own background. I am so proud to serve with the gentleman. Madam Speaker, I, too, am here to talk about the need to cancel student debt. This is a tremendous crisis for 36 million Americans who are being crushed by $1.8 trillion in student loan debt. When I first ran for Congress in 2016, the number was $1.2 trillion; then it was $1.3 trillion, $1.5 trillion, now it is almost $1.8 trillion in student loan debt. Working families and students are counting on this administration to build us all back better. But many families like those I represent in Seattle cannot thrive with the crippling burden of student loan debt holding them back at every single turn. With the student loan moratorium expiring at the end of January, borrowers are literally just a few weeks away from resuming to pay substantial amounts of their income toward student loan payments and the crises that they are facing, the trauma that they are facing as they think about what they are going to do when this moratorium expires and how they are going to make these payments.…”