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

Maybe Congress ought to take a look at providing you with that authority and with the resources, as well.

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

This budget is about making responsible choices together to invest in that foundation for American opportunity and raise the bar for our Nation's future.

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

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

This is wage theft, plain and simple.

the fact is that the ARPA was the more cost-effective solution in terms of rescuing these plans, and not putting the hardship on retirees.

Again, it is really just a question of who is got the lines of authority on the Federal Government side...

I mean based on what your data shows, this has been a win/win for the taxpayer.

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

Last year, House Republicans proposed a destructive cut of $4.7 billion to the Department of Labor.

We must defend public education, not defund public education.

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.

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

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.

And so it is just an important very important piece of ensuring that workers who go to work each day get the wages that they have earned in their pockets.

Childcare is essential and it is in crisis.