Pramila Jayapal

I want to thank you, included nearly $2 billion for Amtrak and my hope is that the national network of passenger rail will be robustly supported with a serious eye towards passenger rail safety.

DACA repeal and deportation of about 800,000 DACA recipients would reduce economic growth by an estimated $280 billion and cost more than $460 billion in economic output over the next decade.

Continuing unraveling of the ACA will increase premiums by double-digit percentages in most states next year, an estimated 18 percent on average.

Without that cooperation and trust of undocumented immigrants, we would not have been able to get some dangerous offenders off the street.

We know we cannot arrest our way out of the opioid crisis.

The latest falsehood is outrageous. Immigrants are certainly not making the opioid crisis worse.

To blame one person who is an immigrant for the crimes of everybody else... is a good tactic for dividing and scapegoating.

I am confused, frankly, about why we are having this hearing.

Because if you had, you would see--because I am a member of that bipartisan task force and it has been working for several years on this very serious issue of the opioid crisis--nowhere in those recommendations is there any reference to…

We are not safer when victims of crime fear being deported if they call 911.

It would be laughable if it were not so serious; if it were not so hurtful to the characterization of immigrants.

Crackdown on Immigrants undermines public safety.

I am calling this the 'Three Strikes, You Are Out' budget, and it is the American people and working people who are rounding the bases and they are being called out by this President and this administration.

The impact of the tax bill is going to be enormously substantial, given how much it increases the deficit.

There is a lot of disagreement around those tax cuts.

Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have made repeated attempts to, in our view, undermine the Affordable Care Act.

This is not a real solution. We will not substitute one family's pain for another's gain. This is about the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. It is about the soul of our country, and Americans deserve a better deal.

On November 11, President Trump not only trusted the word of Vladimir Putin over the brave men and women who serve in our intelligence community, he proceeded to trash the reputations of its leaders.

My testimony has not changed.

I thank Representative Jeffries for laying that out so clearly. I don't know how he feels about the idea that we haven't had a single hearing on this bill. We are hearing that we are going to vote on it in 2 weeks. What is his experience…

The Internet should be free from discrimination against users and preserve choice and opportunity of communication for everyone.

Do you not believe that women's rights are human rights?

The purpose of this bill that has no viability in the courts?

Seven in 10 Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade because they do understand that we as women have the right to determine how we are going to proceed with choices that we make about our own bodies.

This bill is blatantly unconstitutional and that women have a constitutionally protected right to abortion.