I think it is critical that we ask that question because we are talking about children, and we are all parents who understand what that means.

Commander White, you testified on February 7th in the House Energy and Commerce Committee that you as an expert on child welfare had expressed concerns to Mr. Lloyd specifically that family separation--and these are your words--'would be…

I want to thank you for raising these concerns repeatedly and for having at least a sense of compassion and moral obligation that seems to be completely missing from anybody else.

I was the first member of Congress to go and speak to these women who were asylum seekers who had been ripped apart from their children, and I am a parent and it haunts me to this day.

It is legal to seek asylum.

It's time for women to be able to join together, to be able to share information and to demand that current pay not be set by past pay without fear of retaliation.

If women had pay parity, we would drop poverty in families by 50 percent.

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

It is time to match the seriousness of the women in this country who are calling for change.

I just believe that we can do better.

It's time to stop treating women unfairly in the United States of America.

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

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.

An economy that is 72 percent of our GPD is based on consumer spending.

I'm so excited that we are all here today to solve it and to finally, finally, finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.

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.

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

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

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

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

the vestiges of those policies still impact those communities today.

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

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.

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.