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Proudly representing the Virgin Islands of the United States
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Mar 23, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
I have received the Committee's Notice of a Hearing in the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government for Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 9am. This hearing has been publicly noticed without a subjectmatter or witnesses. In light of this, as Ranking Member, I request you call the three individuals who have already sat for transcribed interviews with the staff of the Select Subcommittee to be witnesses at this hearing.
Feb 3, 2023 7 tweets 1 min read
We are nearly a month into this new Congress and @HouseRepublicans have issued more partisan subpoenas than passed bills to create jobs, fight inflation or lower costs for American families. The conspiracy theories underpinning today’s subpoenas have been debunked with facts time and time again, but Republicans do not want to be bothered by this inconvenient truth.
Jul 3, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
July 3 is #EmancipationDay in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
 
On this day 174 years ago, in what was then the Danish West Indies, thousands of enslaved people led by their leader General Buddhoe rose up to end slavery on St. Croix. (1/7) Slaves around the island e mass organized and marched to the Fort to challenge the Danish rule that kept them in chattel slaver. Demanding freedom against a brutal system  (2/7)
May 13, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
More than just abortion rights are at stake. The #GOP has shown that they are coming for any personal right you have the creates equality.  They want to keep us all down #DemocratsDeliver Inflation and how we'll fix it. #DmocratsDeliver #DemsForThePeople #GOPScam
Feb 11, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
“Just as the President spent months spreading his big lie of the election, he spent months cultivating groups of people who - following his commands - repeatedly engaged in real, dangerous, violence”
- Plaskett “And when they did - when the violence erupted to his calls to fight against the stolen election - he didn’t walk it back”
- Plaskett