We owe a huge debt of gratitude to grocery store clerks, hospital workers, long-term care aides, other essential workers.

Equal pay for equal work is still a real thing.

This whole red herring that it's a choice is just BS, right. BS.

What they've been given with the rescue plan is essentially a life preserver, and what they need is a boat and a path to reach the shore.

So, when my mother was working four or five jobs a week, it wasn't much of a choice because we were struggling on a hundred percent of her salary to make ends meet, to put food on the table and a roof over our head.

I have advocated for the equal rights amendment for over 25 years.

I also want to be able to help shape these policies, and I'm asking all of my colleagues to understand and listen.

there is no question that our words matter, our framing matters, and particularly as Members of Congress, when we use our platforms to continue slurs that are seen in a way that encourages racist hate crimes, it is a big problem.

Just recently in a Committee's hearing, some of my colleagues across the aisle continue to call it the China virus. I spoke up. I said that was not correct language, number one, and number two, it incited this kind of hate.

I hope that my colleagues understand their words matter and we need everyone's help in fighting back against these heinous racist attacks.

Antitrust law used to abide by its own rules of the road, sometimes called bright line rules.

the violence and discrimination targeting the Asian-American community hits very close to home, and it's been a difficult hearing.

I really believe we need to reassert the broader vision of a democratic economy and society that once guided antitrust enforcement.

I am not driving I promise you, but I am in a car because I didn't want to miss this very important hearing.

It is clear that the pandemic has had a negative impact on college enrollment for all students, particularly low-income, first generation, and certainly freshman of color.

Our economic recovery may be largely dependent on affordable access to postsecondary education.

Considering Pell has gone from covering 80 percent of the [audio issues] to less than 30 percent at a public four-year college.

I think it is incredibly important for all those reasons for us to have that national strategy, and to do the research that you're talking about.

I think we have a real duty in Congress to learn what we can from the stories of people, particularly the workers that have suffered the worst of the pandemic, and to confront the stories they tell us about inequalities that are tearing…

Having people who say the things that have been said... is dangerous for all of Congress.

I do fear that that is the case. But the proper way to go about it is to call for an investigation.

Help is on the way and it's going directly to the people, every single piece of this package.

My message tonight is help is on the way real, tangible help. Money in your pockets.

It's a very big tactical mistake for Republicans... they're going to have to try to explain why they voted no on a package that puts money in people's pockets.

I believe that to be the case. Obviously, every member makes the decision at the very last minute sometimes, but from my conversations, I think people understand that this is a bill that does what we said we would do. It puts money in…