"This is urgent. And it`s why I think the president has to lean into it, not just privately behind the scenes, but in full view of the American people, who are watching their rights be stripped away."
"The priorities that we as Democrats have campaigned on around child care and the care economy, around health care and Medicare expansion, around bold climate action. These are all critical priorities ..."
"That`s what progressives are about. That`s what we have been saying as Democrats we have to do is deliver for the people."
"If we do a $6 trillion package, I just want to say, that is significant, and it is actually also kind of a drop in the bucket as far as GDP, right? It`s $6 trillion."
"We’re going to do the big reconciliation bill, too. They have to go together."
"we will not move a smaller infrastructure bill, bipartisan, whatever, unless we have simultaneously a big reconciliation bill that has all of our priorities, particularly the five progressive prioriti..."
"this once in a generation investment that the president has been talking about, and that we have been pushing, that`s going to be work to get there."
"the kind of strategy that everybody is now agreeing to in terms of how this is going to move forward really is what progressives were demanding from sort of outside the box as recently as three weeks ..."
"Yes, I think he needs to now do more on this issue."
"I too want to associate myself with the remarks of my colleague, Congressman Murphy, about how important it is to invest in people before they're incarcerated."
"80 billion a year to keep roughly 2.3 million people incarcerated in a system that is neither rehabilitative, nor restorative, is a true waste not only of money, but of human potential."