"Wage theft is indefensible, especially, as corporations rake in record profits."
"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."
"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."
"It's important that workers have the right to litigate in court as a group."
"It's an effective way to quash many of these complaints from workers to be able to get what's fairly owed to them."
"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."
"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 beca..."
"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 ..."
"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's not like banning abortion would get rid of abortions. It would just get rid of safe and legal abortions."
"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."
"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."