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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.

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Sep 27, 2021

Our caucus is not going to allow just a tiny sliver to pass and then everything else die. We`re not going to leave these people behind, these issues behind.

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Sep 27, 2021

I think that`s right. Look, I think these are arbitrary dates. I think Monday was an arbitrary -- today was an arbitrary date that was set by a small group of people.

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Sep 27, 2021

And if there is any piece of this reconciliation bill that isn`t agreed to by the Senate and the House, and if that delay goes on and on as it does here when you don`t have urgency, when you don`t have a deadline, when you don`t have a…

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Sep 27, 2021

I don`t think the speaker will bring the vote to the floor if she doesn`t -- the bill to the floor if she doesn`t have the votes.

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Sep 27, 2021

It`s been really clear that we want to work as hard as we can to get a deal on reconciliation to make sure that the entire bill is passed by the Senate, as well, so that there is no delays. And then we stand just as committed as ever to…

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Sep 26, 2021

Congress now faces a choice. Advance the entirety of an agenda that gets American families the help they need or deliver only a fraction of it. That`s why we as leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus remain committed to voting for…

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Sep 24, 2021

One in four women across America has had an abortion. I am one of them. It is a deeply personal choice about control of our own bodies and the consequences of a choice that only we will have to live with. Do not criminalize me and millions…

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Sep 22, 2021

Progressives will vote for both bills because we proudly support President Biden`s entire Build Back Better package. But a majority of our caucus, our 96-member caucus will only vote for the small infrastructure bill after the big Build…

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Sep 22, 2021

We have the vast majority of the Democratic caucus on board with getting these bills done.

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Sep 22, 2021

We need a little bit more time... we are just saying we need a couple of more weeks to be able to pull everybody together.

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Sep 22, 2021

We support the Progressive Caucus in the House making sure that we now deliver on that promise.

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Sep 22, 2021

We are ready to deliver both pieces of legislation to the President's desk for the signature.

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Sep 22, 2021

We're going to pass the reconciliation bill first, as was agreed upon by the Senate, and then we are going to pass the infrastructure bill and we're going to deliver both to the President.

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Sep 22, 2021

We're not leaving part of the agenda behind. And we're not taking the urgency off of things like childcare, paid leave, climate change, health care, immigration.

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Sep 22, 2021

The President yesterday said to that group, and then he reiterated to us when we met with him that he said, if you want to -- if somebody wants to make this number smaller, tell us what you want to cut, right?

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Sep 22, 2021

Let's just remember that this is the President's agenda. And the two bills comprise the bill back better agenda that the President laid out for us in front of Congress.

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Sep 22, 2021

a majority of our 96 member caucus will only vote for the small infrastructure bill after the Build Back Better Act passes.

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Sep 22, 2021

I am happy to sit down with Senator Manchin or anybody else in the Senate.

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Sep 21, 2021

Anyone that is blocking the reconciliation bill at this point is voting against the president`s agenda, against the Democratic agenda.

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Sep 21, 2021

We will vote for both bills. We will vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill which is much smaller and frankly Rachel it has a lot of things that our members don`t like. But if we can get the reconciliation bill that has the majority…

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Sep 21, 2021

We are committed to delivering the entirety of the president`s agenda to the president`s desk and that is what we have had to do.

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Sep 21, 2021

It is time to do that again.

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Sep 21, 2021

Let’s not self-inflict a totally pointless crisis and huge unnecessary expenditure on our country by having us hit the debt ceiling.

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Sep 21, 2021

the timing of a vote on the already hammered out bipartisan bill on so-called hard infrastructure

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Sep 21, 2021

Try us. I got more than half of the caucus who feels very strongly we`re going to deliver the entirety of the president`s agenda to the president.

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