Honorable Pramila Jayapal
United States Representative, Washington, Democrat
Representative Jayapal, of the Seventh District of Washington, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016. She served in the Washington Senate from 2015 to 2016. She sits on the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee, where she is the Vice Ranking Member. The following is from the May 22, 2018, House floor debate on H.R. 5682, the FIRST STEP (Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person) Act. There is one thing everybody agrees on, and that is that it is past time that we face the institutionalized racial inequity that is built into every single…
