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This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
My bill would create a new tool that gives people experiencing the challenging swings of mental health illness to have the power to proactively and voluntarily protect themselves by putting themselves on a do-not-sell list for a firearm.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Second, it was trying to get to a cease-fire and diplomacy as others were banging war drums, not criticizing Biden. Third, I’ve supported the efforts will continue. Over-analyzed by some.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While there is a lot that was left on the cutting room floor, the reality is this would be a massive accomplishment, and it would help the American people, am I happy that Joe Manchin is at the table right now? Absolutely. Welcome in, Joe Manchin, delighted to work with you.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Welcome in, Joe Manchin, delighted to work with you to get this done.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can pass stuff and we should because we also need to lay out a vision, we have to show people that we in the House, we get elected every two years that we are doing what we promised we would do, and the block is in the Senate.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think it's taken a bit of time for the White House to just tap into how furious we are particularly as women and pregnant people and people who have had abortions or might have an abortion and that's unfortunate.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I always acknowledge the frustration because I feel it too. I mean I think the rage and the anger and the frustration is important, i want us to keep up our anger and channel our frustration which is very, very, very legitimate and necessary frankly, in order to get what we need to get.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you just say' Well, vote,' and you don't explain any of the other stuff, people are going to be furious because they have voted, we have not done a good job in my mind as Democrats, as a country of actually explaining the structural problem with the Senate and the filibuster and if you don't do that, it's to the Republicans' benefit because they can do exactly what they've been doing, which is hold up everything and then blame Democrats.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This isn't a messaging exercise, these are steps that we believe the President has the authority and the ability to take now and should do so.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think Congress has not been consulted sufficiently, a lot of those things do need to have more congressional consultation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's too much at stake and there is a very powerful tool in the president's ability to take executive action.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is not about bringing our party down, bringing our president down, bringing our leadership down, it's about trying to pass the president's agenda.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I just have to believe what the President says, and the President said right after the senator spoke that he is confident he can deliver 51 votes for this plan, i am going to trust the President. House Democrats members are going to trust the President, and House Democrats are going to do the job that House Democrats need to do, which is pass it through.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Now, Congress needs to finish the job and bring both bills to a vote together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reality is that while talks around the infrastructure bill lasted months in the Senate, there has only been serious discussion around the specifics of the larger Build Back Better Act in recent weeks, thanks to Congressional Progressive Caucus holding the line and putting both parts of the agenda back on the table, now, Congress needs to finish the job and bring both bills to a vote together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to be able to say this is what Congressional Progressive Caucus stands for, this is what we're fighting for, this is not a litmus test, this is not a purity test, but we do want people to generally be in line with the caucus on votes.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is probably the most popular part of the whole package, is the tax pieces of it, and it's hard to understand, kyrsten Sinema's really negotiating with the President and, so I feel like what I have is what the President has said to me, which is, Kyrsten Sinema is very much at the table.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have to see what the whole thing is, right, so we just can't say right now, but we're open to anything that moves these things along quickly, as long as we're really confident that it is actually agreed to in total.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not inconceivable that if we're not there that we can extend the surface transportation reauthorization, the most important thing is we deliver both bills to the President's desk, and we are very committed to doing that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't have a number. I told the President I thought 1.9( trillion) to 2.2( trillion) was too small in order to get all of our priorities in.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The something vs. nothing discussion, to me, it's way too early to have that discussion. That's something that happens at the end of a negotiation, when you really fought for something, and the truth is, there was five months of negotiation on the infrastructure bill. And there's been really no negotiation on the Build Back Better Act.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Until we said we weren't going to vote for the infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill, there was no conversation from those two senators about what they didn't like or what they did like, that only happened because we linked the two bills together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've never been as proud of [the Progressive Caucus] as I am in this moment, last night, we held strong for working families and stood up to corporate interests and lobbyists. Today, we keep fighting to deliver the President's ENTIRE agenda for the American people.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That’s too small to get our priorities in, so, it’s going to be somewhere between $1.5 and $3.5 trillion.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let's just wait, this is a negotiation and we've got to continue to move this forward, but The Hyde Amendment is something that the majority of the country does not support, one in four women have had an abortion and need to have reproductive care in a very, very important time when those protections are being rolled back. That is nobody's business. It is our business as people that carry the babies. And you know, we have to be able to make the choices during our pregnancy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Whether the choice to have an abortion is easy or hard, whether there are traumatic situations or not, none of that should be the issue, it is simply nobody's business what choices we as pregnant people make about our own bodies.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have never seen Congressional Progressive Caucus so strong, and I'm a very good vote counter, also, maybe not quite as good as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sometimes, but I'm excellent.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Two years ago, I decided to tell my story as a member of Congress because I was so deeply concerned about the abortion ban legislation that was coming out from states across the country. Today, I am testifying before you because I want you to know that there are so many different situations that people face in making these choices.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The speaker is an incredibly good vote counter, and she knows exactly where her caucus stands and we've been really clear on that, the votes aren't there. I don't think she's going to bring it up.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think the speaker is going to bring a bill to the floor that's going to fail, what we need is to take the temperature down a little bit.... The vote is going to drive up tensions not drive down tensions.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to deliver on the entirety of the president’s agenda.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even if they had that number of Republicans to go on the bipartisan bill, we would still have enough votes to defeat it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason we got the American Rescue plan done is because the President leaned in. The longer we let things sit around, the more time we give to opposition, the more time we give to people who just want to delay because they don't want to get anything done.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
People always go to that point of like, what is the line and where are you going to hold Joe Biden votes and I always say, let us work to try to get it done, that's more important to me than just putting out a false deadline or a false line because I feel like we are still in that process.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The minimum wage remains essential policy and we must deliver on this issue.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
[D]espite the fact that we believe any weakening of the House provisions were bad policy and bad politics, the reality is that the final amendments were relatively minor concessions, the American Rescue Plan has retained its core bold, progressive elements originally proposed by President Joe Biden and passed in the House relief package.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Last session, the people's house, with Chairman Scott and Speaker [ Nancy ] Pelosi in the leadership passed the' Raise the Wage Act' and we're ready to do it again, and now, we have a President Biden who believes that we should pass a $ 15 minimum wage and a Senate led by Democrats ready to work for the people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today is historic, as the No Ban Actis the first bill to pass the House that directly addresses Muslim civil rights.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's time for us to take some steps to figure out other ways that we can get our business done.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bernie Sanders on Monday has consistently and recently multiple times said he doesn't want these kinds of people in the movement, but to focus on these folks really erases women and folks of color and the tens of millions of people who literally bring an incredible energy everywhere they go... These women of color, black and brown folks, don't deserve to have Bloomberg paint us and stereotype us in this way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
An expanded Muslim Ban will worsen our relationships with countries around the world. It wont do anything to make our country safer. It will harm refugees, alienate our allies and give extremists propaganda for recruitment.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
President Trump recklessly assassinated Qasem Soleimani, president Trump had no evidence of an imminent threat or attack.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The president was the first and best witness in this case. The president admitted to his wrongdoing and corrupt intent on national television, the president is the smoking gun.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We need to listen, we need to go through the hearing( Monday) and see what is said there, we do want to listen to the minority case, the minority's counsel, we want to make sure we have all that information in front of us, and then once that's done, we'll have a good sense of what's next.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What we have to think about is what gives us the strongest trial in the Senate.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I don't think those comments were helpful to a broader picture of how we build progressive power in the House and what it looks like relative to overall Democratic power.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Justin Amash coming on board means there is now bipartisan support for really understanding the seriousness of what is in the Mueller report.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The attorney general has made it clear -- through his broad support for sweeping presidential power and authority and his past criticism of the special counsel's inquiry -- that he is not an unbiased participant. It is, therefore, even more urgent that Congress immediately receive the full report and all the underlying documentation and evidence so that we can make our own determinations.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Americans are literally dying because they can't afford insulin or they can't get the cancer treatment they need, there are some things that should not be provided through the for-profit market.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
She will be a powerhouse woman of color in Congress and a steadfast champion for our values. She's challenged Donald Trump face-to-face, taken on and defeated the Koch Brothers in her own backyard, and her record of getting results for working people is simply stellar.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It was very disappointing, they really had no specific information or more numbers.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need to set up a commission that looks at the alternatives to ICE and really starts to understand how do we have these functions in a way that is accountable, transparent and humane.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I felt it critical that the American people saw that we know how democracy has been undermined and votes have been suppressed.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it is absolutely unacceptable to see the racism and hatred coming out of the White House, the way in which this president is fueling the flames of divisiveness across the country.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is not a partisan issue, we all understand that, particularly for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, we have to have the ability for them to come forward and not fear that they are going to somehow suffer some kind of a consequences because of their immigration status.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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