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.
It is the president`s agenda. It`s the Democratic agenda. And most importantly, it is about humanity.
The infrastructure bill really is a big deal. Trump said for four years that he was going to get infrastructure done. He never got infrastructure done. President Biden has gotten infrastructure done.
The whole Build Back Better Act is about lowering costs for American families, about giving people more opportunity, about providing universal child care, pre-k, so much more.
This Build Back Better Act, this is the bill that really takes on climate change.
The Build Back Better Act is the president’s agenda. And the progressive caucus has been fighting so hard for months to make sure that we get that agenda across the finish line.
Forced arbitration for sexual assault and harassment is a lose-lose scenario, and we are going to do everything we can to pass this bill and to protect women.
I am a very proud co-lead of this bill, the bipartisan, bicameral legislation, the Ending Forced Arbitration for Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.
Negotiation is always tough, but there is a moment where you just have to decide, whether it is going to get you close enough to what`s the original prize was.
I believe and I`ll tell you they made a commitment to me one-on-one, they made a written statement, they also made a commitment to the president, that they did not believe any information would change substantially from what had already…
I missed Roll Call 368 on November 5, 2021. Had I been present, my vote would have been yea. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Axne (Clark (MA)) Babin (Nehls) Baird (Mooney) Barr (McHenry) Barragan (Huffman)…
because her caucus has gotten those assurances, they will now move forward to advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as vote on the rule there.
But I do believe that this is too important to people across this country, to the Democratic Party, to the president for anyone to vote against this once it goes to the Senate.
We are now down to really just a handful of people. And I have every hope that we will quickly finish this and we will be able to pass both bills out of the House and send them over to the Senate.
Well, look, I mean, we have said for some time that this was a deal that was negotiated by the president himself and Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema, and that we would trust the president that he was confident that he could get 51 votes.
I do not think that Ms. Pineiro, or I, or any other person who makes this constitutionally-protected choice should be traumatized by being called a murderer.
I start with the Constitution, and I start with the Constitutional right that I have to make choices about my own body.
The most important thing is, we can never run just on anti-Trump. That is not a message that voters are going to resonate to.
I have faith in Joe Biden and I have faith in Democrats to deliver both of these bills.
We have been working to pass the President's Build Back Better agenda. This is not some far left agenda. This is the President's agenda that he came down to Capitol Hill and unveiled to us in February, and we're so proud of his leadership.
We are the ones that are looking to pass universal childcare and universal pre-K, to cut prescription drug costs.
I think that the whole issue that we see for voters last night is, people do need help from us and that's what we've been working to do with the President's Build Back Better agenda.





