Terri Sewell in 2022 AL Senate race
On Budget & Economy:
Frontline cities need more direct COVID assistance
Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, voted in favor of the American Rescue Plan, the Democratic COVID-19 aid legislation. "Over the past year, our country has faced a harrowing, unprecedented crisis," Sewell said. "The coronavirus pandemic and the
subsequent economic fallout have reverberated throughout our communities, jeopardizing the health and financial stability of millions of American families. I proudly voted to pass the American Rescue Plan today because Alabama families and workers
can no longer wait for relief needed to weather this public health and economic crisis."Sewell said that cities and counties are on the front lines in the fight against the COVID pandemic, and they need more direct assistance to develop
local vaccination plans, pay frontline employees overtime and hazard pay, and continue to offer essential services to families and neighbors.
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Mar 1, 2021
On Civil Rights:
Backed Congressional Medal for 1963 church bombing victims
The murder of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, shook the nation. But it wasn't until 2013--50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing--that the victims were officially acknowledged for their sacrifice with what
Sewell described as, "the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow upon anyone." Sewell was the sponsor of a bill that posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal to the girls, an action that came as the result of a sense of personal duty.
Source: NBC Boston on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Feb 24, 2021
On Environment:
League of Conservation Voters: highest score from Alabama
Sewell earned the highest score with a 90. "As a Representative of constituents disproportionately impacted by environmental injustices, I am proud to fight for stronger environmental protections for our communities," Sewell said. "I am proud
to receive the highest score from the League of Conservation Voters in Alabama's Congressional Delegation. I remain committed to doing everything in my power to ensure we create a better, healthier, and more equitable environment for future generations."
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Feb 22, 2021
On Government Reform:
Voting Rights Act protects voices of the minority
Sewell said, "I remind my colleagues on the right that the Voting Rights Act was about protecting minority rights.""And while right now many communities of color are in the minority," she noted, "[t]he browning of America is very real.
The majority may become the minority, and that's what the Voting Rights Act was about--protecting the voices of those that are in the minority."
Source: Daily Princetonian on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Dec 20, 2020
On Jobs:
Supports Amazon workers voting on whether to unionize
A congressional delegation will visit an Amazon.com Inc facility in Alabama to show their support for workers who will vote on whether to unionize. The delegation will include U.S. Representatives Andy Levin, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush,
Terri Sewell and Nikema Williams among others, said a spokeswoman for the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, which is supporting the workers' effort to unionize.
Source: Reuters News Service on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Mar 1, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Black women need a seat at the table
[On national politics]: "Black women have helped deliver Biden to the White House," Sewell said. "We helped deliver Senator Doug Jones to the Senate, and I do believe we deserve a seat at the table. The opportunity to represent my home district --
Selma, Alabama, Montgomery, Birmingham, the civil rights district -- is the honor of a lifetime for me. I've worked hard over the last 10 years and here's what I know for sure: Black women need a seat at the table."
Source: The Birmingham News on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Feb 20, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Received Princeton distinguished public service award
The American Whig-Cliosophic Society presented Representative Sewell '86 with its highest honor, the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. Sewell is the first female African American recipient in the honor's 60-year history.
In her opening speech, Sewell reflected on her journey from "a public school in Selma, Alabama" to "Princeton, Oxford, Harvard Law School, and now to be the United States Congresswoman from [her] home district of Alabama."
Source: Daily Princetonian on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Dec 20, 2020
On Principles & Values:
More things that combine and bind us than separate us
Sewell acknowledged the challenges in pushing for change as the lone Democrat in Alabama's Congressional delegation, noting that she "had to learn to compromise in order to get the resources and the opportunities" for her constituents. "There are more
things that combine us and that bind [Americans] together than that separate us," Sewell continued, "and so trying to forge commonality trying to look for those areas where you can agree on and build out from there is critically important."
Source: Daily Princetonian on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Dec 20, 2020
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