Pramila Jayapal

Every woman in this country, especially the black women and Latinas and native women who experience the most yawning pay gaps deserves robust, baseline, equal pay protections in a Federal law that actually work.

We are so proud of the work that Moms Rising has done not just in Washington State but around the country.

Thank you so much, Madame Chair, for this opportunity. It is my great honor to introduce Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner...

Washington state was actually--the state supreme court actually ruled that the state was not meeting its constitutional obligation to fund public education way back in 2012, and we finally are correcting that situation and putting more in…

It is just crazy to me that we would not be investing everything we can into making sure that our kids and our teachers and our communities have the resources they need.

Most of these women, most of the men were seeking asylum, and your Department... imposed a zero-humanity policy.

Our country is still reeling from the horrors of family separation that occurred at the border.

Raising the minimum wage would help right some of those economic wrongs.

The vestiges of those policies still impact those communities today.

The testimony that we continue to hear is simply not accurate.

The argument around youth employment has been proven false over and over again.

So, Mr. Wise, I just wanted to give you a little bit more of a chance to talk also about your colleagues.

We are proud in Washington State to have one of the highest minimum wages in the country indexed to inflation, going all the way back to 1998.

None of that would be possible without the work of people like Mr. Wise and all of the people that are in the room that have been on the streets, that have been in your employer's workplaces demanding a $15 minimum wage.

I am from Seattle. I proudly represent the district that passed the highest minimum wage in the country.

I believe that our teachers and our students need more, and I believe that education is actually a national security priority.

The Trump tax cuts increased the deficit. Clearly, they didn't pay for themselves.

I actually asked the CBO director about the tax cuts, and very clearly he said that they did not pay for themselves, that they did increase the deficit.

I am proud to be from Washington State where we have consistently passed some of the most sweeping gun reform pieces of legislation.

The reality is you all are putting this issue on the map, and I am so deeply grateful for that.

Every day we know 109 people are killed by gun violence.

This is indeed a great day that we get to have a hearing on a bill that really seeks to restore Americans' faith in our democracy.

The whole point of the act was to make sure that the American decisionmakers and government officials and the public weren't subjected to foreign propaganda without at least knowing that it was foreign propaganda.

This is indeed a great day that we get to have a hearing on a bill that really seeks to restore Americans' faith in our democracy.

There seem to be some indication that people are trying to say that we are somehow inflating the concerns about voter suppression.