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Pramila Jayapal

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Pramila Jayapal is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she is notable for being the first South Asian woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Throughout her tenure, Jayapal has focused on issues such as healthcare reform, immigration, and social justice, advocating for policies that aim to improve the lives of her constituents and promote equity across the nation.

Quotes by year · 2017–20261,305 total · peak 2021 (350)
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Jun 13, 2022

The other side puts money out too. Let's be really clear. That is the $2 trillion tax cut that Donald Trump passed with Republican votes.

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Jun 13, 2022

When we think about it, there's an estimated 2.2 million domestic workers employed in private homes to provide care for children, elders, and disabled individuals, and housecleaning services.

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Jun 13, 2022

The homecare workforce was truly on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and provided this critical care

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Jun 8, 2022

There is no way to move on without getting accountability.

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Jun 1, 2022

Do not tell me that the answer to this is to put even more guns on the streets or to militarize our schools.

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May 17, 2022

In the wake of this opinion, it is clear that the anti-abortion movement is not pro-life. They are anti-freedom.

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May 17, 2022

At every turn, this anti-freedom movement as you said that is opposing abortion and reproductive health access are the same people who don't want to provide healthcare to people and want to tear down the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid.

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May 17, 2022

The hypocrisy of an anti-freedom, anti-abortion movement that claims to support life and freedom.

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May 17, 2022

You want to know what's radical? A radical and politicized Supreme Court majority now stands poised to take away the basic freedom that women and pregnant people must have to make choices about our own bodies and instead to have the…

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May 16, 2022

The pandemic has hemorrhaged the global supply chain. Corporate monopolies have worsened conditions.

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May 10, 2022

I'm proud that the House has passed the ending of Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, my bill with Cheri Bustos.

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May 10, 2022

It's an effective way to quash many of these complaints from workers to be able to get what's fairly owed to them.

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May 10, 2022

It's important that workers have the right to litigate in court as a group.

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May 10, 2022

That's why I'm a proud co-sponsor of the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act, which bans these coercive practices against workers fighting to win their hard-earned wages.

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May 10, 2022

On average, a worker experiencing minimum wage violations lose about $3,300 in 1 year, more than a month of rent in a city like Seattle.

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May 10, 2022

Wage theft is indefensible, especially, as corporations rake in record profits.

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May 3, 2022

This overturning Roe v. Wade is way out of step with the country. The polling is anywhere from 59 to 70 percent of Americans, depending on which poll you look at supports maintaining Roe v. Wade.

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May 3, 2022

I found that to be one of the most ludicrous arguments that was being made, because are they saying that by overturning Roe v. Wade, that somehow we're going to have a more cordial discussion around this? That somehow this is going to…

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May 3, 2022

It makes the argument that if something was not designated as a right, actually specified in the Constitution of 200 years ago, than it is not a right today.

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May 3, 2022

I think we should really appeal to them to be on the right side of history and to join us in a carve-out to the filibuster, and then we would have 51 votes.

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May 3, 2022

It's not like banning abortion would get rid of abortions. It would just get rid of safe and legal abortions.

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May 3, 2022

I very much wanted to have more children, but I simply could not imagine going through that again. For me, terminating my pregnancy was not an easy choice, the most difficult I've made in my life, but it was my choice and that is what must…

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May 3, 2022

The House has passed the women`s health protection act which codifies Roe. We can pass it again. The Senate -- I think it`s very important for the Republican senators who voted for these justices but said that they cared about abortion as…

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May 3, 2022

I speak to you as one of the one in four women in America who have had an abortion. I knew I was not ready to have another child so I religiously took my daily contraceptive pill. Despite that, I became pregnant. I consulted with my…

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