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• HuffPost: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez And Ayanna Pressley Want Birth Control To Be Over-The-Counter - A
  https://pressley.house.gov/2019/06/13/huffpost-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-ayanna-pressley-want-birth-control-be-over/
  ... of oppression to seize control of the one essential thing a person should command: their own body,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a release. “Women should have the right to own and control their own bodies.” Several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates also co...
• The Boston Globe: Ayanna Pressley reveals struggle with alopecia, sharing hair loss in video - Ayann
  https://pressley.house.gov/2020/01/16/boston-globe-ayanna-pressley-reveals-struggle-alopecia-sharing-hair-loss-video/
  ... Senegalese twists, which she first started wearing a few years before her primary upset over former congressman Michael E. Capuano and subsequent election to Congress in 2018. In the year since she took office, she’s become one of the most high-profile...
• The Boston Globe: Sanders, Warren push for halt to evictions during coronavirus crisis - Ayanna Pres
  https://pressley.house.gov/2020/03/18/boston-globe-sanders-warren-push-halt-evictions-during-coronavirus-crisis/
  ... the largest expense for many families,” they wrote, noting that one-third of Americans pay 30 percent or more of their income toward housing. “Given how squeezed these families budgets are, any interruption in income will likely translate into default on rent...
• StreetsBlog Mass: Rep. Pressley Calls on Feds to Fund Highways, Transit Equally - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2020/12/11/streetsblog-mass-rep-pressley-calls-feds-fund-highways-transit-equally/
  ..., why is federal spending still doling out four times as much money for highways than for transit? “Public transit is a public good, and it’s past time our government treat it like one,” said Rep. Pressley in a press release announcing the resolution. “For too long...
• Statement from Rep. Pressley, Senators Markey, Warren on Release of $109 Million Federal Dollars to
  https://pressley.house.gov/2021/07/07/statement-rep-pressley-senators-markey-warren-release-109-million-federal/
  ..., and secured a commitment for the Commonwealth to release, was distributed today so that these hard-hit communities can begin to rebuild and recover following the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one step in a long fight for a full and equitable recovery...
• Pressley Advances $300K in Federal Community Project Funding for La Colaborativa in Chelsea - Ayanna
  https://pressley.house.gov/2021/07/30/pressley-advances-300k-federal-community-project-funding-la-colaborativa/
  ... Congress’ new Community Project Funding initiative. “Chelsea, a predominantly Black, brown, low-income, and immigrant community, is one of the cities hardest hit by COVID-19 due to decades of under-investment, systemic racism and other structural inequities...
• Statement from Reps. Pressley, García, Bowman, Bush, Ocasio-Cortez, and Tlaib Regarding Delays for t
  https://pressley.house.gov/2022/02/11/statement-reps-pressley-garc-bowman-bush-ocasio-cortez-and-tlaib-regarding/
  .... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), and Congressman Mondaire Jones (NY-17) urged President Biden to  replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell  with one focused on eliminating...
• Pressley Statement on Supreme Court’s Reinstatement of Death Penalty - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2022/03/04/pressley-statement-supreme-court-s-reinstatement-death-penalty/
  ... of those on death row, direct DOJ prosecutors to no longer seek the death penalty, and dismantle the death row facility at Terre Haute. President Biden gave me his word that no one would be executed by the federal government under his watch, and I fully expect...
• Pressley, Warren, McGovern, Markey Push Stop & Shop Parent Company on Price Gouging Concerns in Mass
  https://pressley.house.gov/2024/10/03/pressley-warren-mcgovern-markey-push-stop-shop-parent-company-on-price-gouging-concerns-in-massachusetts-communities/
  .... This is just one example of a larger trend of price gouging that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “Stop & Shop’s actions appear to reflect a problem of opportunistic and sometimes-predatory pricing practices by major food and grocery corporations...
• Inauguration Tickets  - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/inauguration-tickets/
  ... to observe the Inaugural Parade route on foot are not required. How can I pick up tickets if I receive them?  Historically, the JCCIC has not released the physical Inauguration tickets to House offices until approximately one week before the Inauguration...