Waiting 38, 39 minutes is just intolerable, and not the fault of the hard working people in the Social Security Administration, it is the lack of resources that you are provided, so, we got to do better.

Noted what Senator Blumenthal talked about the 38 minutes on hold time.

Unfortunately, many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to roll back these essential protections, but we cannot go backwards.

I specifically commend your Department's work to fight wage theft when employers fail to compensate workers for the wages they have earned.

Let me be clear. Much more funding is necessary to address the childcare crisis in this country.

I encourage my colleagues to vote for it, as I will.

We need to continue on, but the strategy is ensuring States and districts focus like a laser on evidence-based responses to learning loss.

We must defend public education, not defund public education.

I was pleased that the budget includes investments in women's health, that is Title X, NIH Office of Research on Women's Health.

I am here to defend it unapologetically as the foundation of the American Dream.

We have an enormous responsibility to deliver for the students in a system that should be our country's great equalizer.

Noted what Senator Blumenthal talked about the 38 minutes on hold time.

I have seen the positive impact of substance use in our--we have peer review counselors now, crisis response teams around the country, one in my own hometown of New Haven, Connecticut.

chronic absenteeism from school is a profound crisis for our kids.

This is wage theft, plain and simple.

I am proud of where we ended up with the 2024 appropriations bills, but there are still unmet needs for workers.

the Democrats worked with the President and with you, $130,000,000,000 to K through 12 schools in the American Rescue Plan, 20 percent to deal with learning loss.

we were trying to get women and minorities into the clinical trials.