Yassamin Ansari
Representative for Arizona · Democratic · United States
“Even Vice President JD Vance admitted that 99 percent--his words--of the backlash against data centers is happening in places where they are driving up utility bills. Protecting Arizona's water is not backwards.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“According to the President, Americans should welcome data centers without question if they want to become ``successful and rich.'' His exact declaration was: ``Let data reign.'' That is a wildly out-of-touch response to Americans who are worried about their electricity bills, their water supply, and the future of their communities, all of…”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“In other words, the President himself has an enormous financial interest in a company positioning itself to benefit from the growth of the data center energy market. He is once again using his Presidency to enrich himself and his family.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“If every currently planned project in the Phoenix area is built, data center water demand could increase by more than 450 percent. It is extremely alarming, and my constituents are right to express their concerns on how our government allocates its resources, including by providing immense tax breaks to ultra-rich AI and data center compa…”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“Congress also needs to investigate the President's conflict of interest and demand full transparency about how financial holdings intersect with his administration's data center and energy policies. We can believe in American innovation without handing Big Tech a blank check on our water supply and electricity bills.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“The mass deportation agenda is part of their fascist, far-right scheme to amass power by using immigrants as scapegoats and deploying Federal troops to American cities, like my hometown of Phoenix.”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
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“Congress also needs to investigate the President's conflict of interest and demand full transparency about how financial holdings intersect with his administration's data center and energy policies. We can believe in American innovation without handing Big Tech a blank check on our water supply and electricity bills. Arizonans are not backward and poor. We are tired of being told to sacrifice more so that billionaires and the President himself can become richer.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“In other words, the President himself has an enormous financial interest in a company positioning itself to benefit from the growth of the data center energy market. He is once again using his Presidency to enrich himself and his family. That creates a glaring conflict of interest when it comes to Trump using the power and platform of the Presidency to attack communities resisting the construction of new data centers. Americans deserve to know whether he is speaking for the public interest or promoting his own investment portfolio. {time} 1130 I support Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' call for a statewide pause. Arizona should not approve another massive data center until we have a comprehensive plan to protect our water, our electrical grid, and Arizona ratepayers.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“Even Vice President JD Vance admitted that 99 percent--his words--of the backlash against data centers is happening in places where they are driving up utility bills. Protecting Arizona's water is not backwards. Keeping electricity affordable enough for seniors to turn their air conditioners on during the summer is not poor, and allowing the wealthiest companies on the planet to consume our water and power while working families absorb the cost is not progress. But here is the real reason that Donald Trump is so eager to tell communities to stop pushing back against data centers: Donald Trump is the sole beneficiary of a trust holding nearly 115 million shares of Trump Media. Trump Media is pursuing a pending $6 billion merger with TAE Technologies, an energy company that explicitly markets its technology for AI data center expansion.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“If every currently planned project in the Phoenix area is built, data center water demand could increase by more than 450 percent. It is extremely alarming, and my constituents are right to express their concerns on how our government allocates its resources, including by providing immense tax breaks to ultra-rich AI and data center companies. Our electricity grid is also under enormous strain. Arizona families are facing higher utility bills, most especially as a result of Trump's illegal war in Iran, all while data centers demand staggering amounts of energy. Research has found that these facilities can make surrounding neighborhoods as much as four degrees hotter, in a city like Phoenix where extreme heat already kills people. These are not irrational concerns.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“According to the President, Americans should welcome data centers without question if they want to become ``successful and rich.'' His exact declaration was: ``Let data reign.'' That is a wildly out-of-touch response to Americans who are worried about their electricity bills, their water supply, and the future of their communities, all of which are being made dramatically worse by this administration. I represent Phoenix, Arizona, the Nation's fifth largest city, and we don't need any more data centers in our communities right now. We are already on the front lines of a severe and historic water crisis. The Trump administration just slashed our Colorado River water allocation by nearly 30 percent. Meanwhile, a single data center can consume tens if not hundreds of millions of gallons of water every year.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, this week, Donald Trump attacked communities across the country that are raising concerns about the proliferation of gigantic, power-hungry data centers. He called them backwards and poor.”
House of Representatives2 September 2026Source ↗
“We are a nation of laws, not a nation of secret police, cold-blooded murders by Federal agents on city streets, and black site detention centers. We must urgently work to stop these horrific abuses. It is a moral stain on our country. We must abolish ICE, and we are going to prosecute every single person responsible for directing, enabling, or carrying out these crimes. Lives are at stake. How many more families and communities need to be torn apart for Republicans in Congress to do something? ____________________”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
“They came in and started shooting from the sides. As with Alex Pretti and Renee Good, ICE is lying and lying badly. I honestly cannot believe how terrible their lies are. That wasn't enough. ICE murdered another person in Maine, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, somebody who had a work permit, somebody who had a U.S. Social Security number. Then, DHS put out a statement just yesterday, just last night, that said that this man was trying to drive away, and they shot him for these vague assertions of public safety. ICE murdered a Maine resident, a law-abiding resident, in front of his wife and his 3-year-old daughter for no reason whatsoever. This is just pure evil. Democrats in Congress have been demanding accountability for well over a year.”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
“ICE is using pathetic excuses and spreading more misleading information with the Federal Government's bully pulpit to cover up their crimes. This is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father who was driving to work and was shot and murdered while doing so. He was not a domestic terrorist. He wasn't going to ram his vehicle into anybody. He had no criminal record whatsoever. He was a hardworking, beloved father of American citizens who was working hard to build the American Dream. If you haven't watched his son Ronaldo speak about his dad, I recommend you do so. It is heart-wrenching. It is outrageous that ICE is claiming Lorenzo ``weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.'' Multiple witnesses have testified that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van.”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
“The mass deportation agenda is part of their fascist, far-right scheme to amass power by using immigrants as scapegoats and deploying Federal troops to American cities, like my hometown of Phoenix. All across this country, people are shocked, outraged, and appalled by ICE's conduct and the sheer cruelty of Trump's mass deportation agenda. Yet, it continues to happen in service of arbitrary, brutal quotas for bodies--quotas for bodies of real people to fill beds so that for-profit prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic can rake in billions of dollars and families can be torn apart and deported to third countries they have never known. We are talking about 10,000 arrests in a 5-day period this past week. As part of all of these horrors, ICE has carried out two sickening murders just in the last week: one in Houston and one in Maine.”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, ICE, the President's paramilitary secret police force, continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight and in cold blood. First, it was Ruben Ray Martinez in March 2025, but ICE covered it up and kept it from the public. Then, it was Alex Pretti and Renee Good. ICE shot and killed these two innocent people in Minnesota who had done nothing more than exercise their constitutional right to protest and free speech.”
House of Representatives14 July 2026Source ↗
“BURCHETT and BURLISON changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.'' So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: Ms. ANSARI. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 234. ____________________”
House of Representatives13 July 2026Source ↗
“These cases are not just about these specific people or children sent on planes to foreign prisons by the U.S. Government. Our entire system of justice hinges on the rights afforded to us by the Constitution, the rights of due process, access to legal representation, and the ability to be heard in a court of law. It is a dark day for our democracy when the Federal Government snatches people off of the streets, flies them out of the country secretly in the dead of night, and sends them to a foreign prison to be detained indefinitely with no legal recourse or chance to prove their case. Who is to say that it couldn't be you or me next? I will continue to speak out for due process and our constitutional rights.”
House of Representatives30 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, last week, I traveled to El Salvador, along with three of my colleagues, to see firsthand the chaos unleashed by the Trump administration through its unconstitutional and illegal deportations of U.S. residents to third-party countries. I represent a beautifully diverse district in which 64 languages are spoken and where families of immigrants like mine thrive. I have heard more about this issue from my constituents than any other during my time in Congress. In El Salvador, we met with the U.S. Ambassador and demanded that the Trump administration facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in compliance with the 9-0, unanimous Supreme Court decision of the United States and the lower Federal court judges. Mr.”
House of Representatives30 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the contributions of the Iranian-American community and all those who celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Alongside Congresswoman Lofgren, I am proud to introduce two pieces of legislation today, one which designates March as Iranian-American Heritage Month and the other to provide congressional recognition of Nowruz.”
House of Representatives24 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my outrage and strong opposition to the inhumane treatment of migrants fleeing religious persecution. Earlier this month, the Trump administration deported roughly 300 men, women, and children seeking refuge in the United States to Panama on U.S. military aircraft, locking them in hotel rooms without access to basic rights or counsel.”
House of Representatives3 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to mark Black History Month and recognize the contributions of Black-led organizations in Arizona's Third District doing the work on the ground to uplift their communities. Today, I want to honor Project Roots. Project Roots is a nonprofit community garden founded by two incredible women, Dionne Washington and Bridget Pettis, who recognized an unmet need in their community and stepped up to address it.”
House of Representatives27 February 2025Source ↗
“The Treasury makes 1.5 billion payments a year to taxpayers, businesses, and seniors, everything from Social Security benefits to tax refunds, Medicare, and Medicaid. Musk now has access to Americans' confidential tax refund information, which includes their names, Social Security numbers, and home addresses. That is why I am headed to Treasury this evening to stand up for Arizonans' privacy and to stand up for our democracy. As a member of the House Oversight Committee, we are calling out this breach of law, privacy, and national security on behalf of the American people.”
House of Representatives4 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, day after day, Donald Trump is abusing power, breaking the law, and tearing apart our Constitution. Trump has handed over the government to Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire who does not care about the American people. Trump has given Musk and his cronies extensive access to confidential, personal information across all Federal agencies, including the Treasury.”
House of Representatives4 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share the story of Milagros Heredia, a Dreamer, who calls my district home. Milagros was a baby when her mother carried her across the border for a better life. At 8 months old, Milagros was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Specialists gave her a 15 percent chance of survival, and she defied the odds. Now 22, she is a student at Grand Canyon University, studying to become an oncologist.”
House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the remarkable legacy of Pastor Warren Stewart, Sr., of Phoenix, Arizona. At First Institutional Baptist Church, Pastor Stewart has been a beacon of hope, faith, and justice in our district for decades. His tireless work has gone beyond his pastoral role. He has always been a leader for social change in our community.”
House of Representatives15 January 2025Source ↗