Barbara Lee tweeted the following:
"Environmental disasters like this are the direct result of corporate greed.Rail companies have been putting profit > people & safety for years: firing workers, cutting maintenance & inspections, lobbying for deregulation.Now an entire town is burning with toxic chemicals."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Barbara Lee:
"This is undoubtedly one of the worst ecological disasters in US history, but it won't be the last unless there is accountability and transparency with what is going on in people's own backyardespecially in marginalized communities. #EastPalestine"Read on Twitter"Read on Twitter
"A question Ive been getting asked a lot is whether Democrats can get anything done this Congress with a Republican majority.My answer? Of course it will be a challenge. But the issues before us are too urgent for us not to act." on Feb. 13Read on Twitter
"Imagine trying to push a policy so unpopular that the only way you can think to get it done is by threatening to crash the entire economy.Thats what Republicans are doing right now: threatening default for the first time in history in order to gut Social Security and Medicare." on Feb. 12Read on Twitter
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