There's no doubt that corporations have been getting away with dumping their pollution into our environment for decades and that they're especially emboldened to pollute in low-income communities and, typically, low-income communities of color.
— Rashida Tlaib
I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.
I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.
Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.
There are proven health benefits for both babies and mothers who breastfeed, and it's unfortunate that it still carries an unfair stigma in our society.
Obviously, I am a member of Congress, and things that I say are elevated on a national level, and I understand that very clearly.
I'm very proud to be Arab.
I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit, watching my mother learn how to drive for the first time.
I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.
Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start speaking in Spanish to my uncle and my grandmother because we didn't understand.
Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.
I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.
Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.
I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.
Big money has hijacked our politics.
President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.
I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.
Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.
I take a very different approach to public service. I'm a person that always takes it out in the streets and in the courts... the tool box that is attached to me is very diverse.
Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.
I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.
I'm very proud to be a Detroiter.
As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.
I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.
A photo does not mean I agree with anything someone says.
Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.
I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.
Old models of development simply seek to lure business with substantial tax breaks and then hope (and pray) that economic benefits will trickle down to residents. It has not worked for our city in the past, and it will not work for the future city that we all hope want to see.
I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.
How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?
We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.
I went to Detroit Public Schools: Harms Elementary, Bennett, which is now called Phoenix Academy. This is all in Southwest Detroit. I graduated from Southwestern High School, so I'm a 'Prospector,' which is what we used to call each other.
I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.
I'll do everything I can to ensure the Clean Water Act is enforced here in Michigan, and I'll work to ensure everyone in Michigan has access to safe, affordable water, regardless of where they live.
In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.
I support a Green New Deal to put people to work building a renewable green energy infrastructure that can help us fight climate change and protect our communities.
We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.
I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and raised.
I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.
You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.
I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.
I really truly respect and honor the fact that the majority of my district is African-American and that I have to make sure that I surround myself with people with that lens.
I'm not a makeup girl!
Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.
Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.
We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.
Resources and money can change people's lives today, where legislation can take years - up to 10, 15 years sometimes before it really, really impacts people.
We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!
My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.
