I am not a fan of the ballooning Department of Defense budget. I think there is a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse.

I wish we were spending more within this budget on addressing climate change as a national security threat.

I find it odd that my colleagues across the aisle would resist mask wearing, or vaccinations, and yet you want to use a public health title, Title 42 is a public health title to keep immigrants out of the country.

Thank you for your work on fixing the family glitch, which is going to lower costs for American people.

If we get it across, we are going to do everything we can to get it across, I just hope you use it to investigate some of the profiteering practices of these private insurance companies.

I need to express my deep concern with the 4 percent increase in defense spending.

I am a lead sponsor of the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act.

Researchers have found that Medicare for All will save over 68,000 lives per year.

Medicare for All, a comprehensive proposal to transition our healthcare system to a national single-payer model, offers a bold vision for an America where no patient is denied necessary medical care because it is too expensive.

My Medicare for All act would provide healthcare to everyone in the United States without the financial, racial, or demographic barriers that exist in our current system.

I would just argue that Medicare for All would actually allow people to make choices...

I have proudly supported Medicare for All since it was first introduced in Congress nearly two decades ago, and I will continue to push for this vision of the American healthcare system.

Congresswoman Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib...have been some of the most powerful voices in Congress for an America where healthcare is a human right.

America has a monopoly crisis that is strangling small businesses and hurting people's pocketbooks.

Democrats will continue working tirelessly to ensure that no person's financial circumstances keep them from obtaining quality healthcare.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act. Forced arbitration deprives workers of the choice to have their day in court. When companies impose forced…

the entire debate on infrastructure is a really good example of the ways in which the contributions of women to the economy and how fundamental and essential they are is devalued in a systematic way.

supporting the domestic work force crucial to ensuring that women can thrive in a post-pandemic economy.

And in passing the National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, led by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Ben Ray Lujan, we can establish long overdue rights and protections for this incredibly important…

I think it is also very clear that what we have going on right now is pandemic profiteering by the largest corporations.

The work that allows all other work to happen. And it is also why it is important that we keep those investments that we have proposed in Build Back Better for elder care, for childcare, for all of this kind of work.

investing in prioritizing, investing in our caregiving infrastructure the way that we have invested in infrastructure--more traditional surface infrastructure is essential and fundamental.

I have argued with you in the past that our immigration system is 'sexclusionary'—is what I call it—because it places value on work typically performed by men.

we need to shift significant resources from law enforcement to other places.

the department must be dismantled and policing reimagined.