I would humbly suggest and I am glad to see that these cooperative agreements are in place.

SNAP is a powerful and successful tool to ensure that all Americans can afford healthy food--it is a lifeline for 41 million Americans.

[A]s of April 2023, states and towns struggled to fill over 833,000 open positions for the employees who actually do this work.

Congress must shift its focus to support, not obstruct, the Wage and Hour Division's progress to deliver for workers, children, and families.

they, again, will pounce on the failure to follow through on this as an example that it's really never going to happen

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And at the outset of my remarks I just want to thank Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Meeks...

I rise before the House today as the Member from eastern Connecticut having the honor to represent the Second Congressional District to report on some encouraging news on probably one of the most gut-wrenching, disheartening problems that…

Donald Trump yesterday suggested that Vladimir Putin should have free rein in attacking NATO allies.

Can you understand--let me ask a different question, do you understand that one of my constituents in Connecticut would look at those numbers and think that you care more about padding the pockets of the folks that work for you and invest…

I am grateful to my colleague Senator Shaheen of New Hampshire, as well as Senator Bennet of Colorado, Senator Cardin of Maryland, and I will be followed by Senator Peters of Michigan. We are among the group, but we are hardly the only…

Why not take--why not--you put $8 billion into stock buybacks. Why not do $4 billion and instead take the rest of the money and bring the price of the drug down?

We cannot have classified information out in the wild, and that applies to a, you know, junior airman in Cape Cod who was responsible for a brutal release of classified. It applies to a present United States and to an expert in United…

The prime minister has been extremely aggressive. You don't -- on the one hand, you don't blame him for being aggressive considering the horror that were visited on his country on October 7.

But explain to me how you justify that division of dividends and stock buybacks versus research development.

We believe that price caps are not the way that innovation is going to be fostered.

If that's the standard, let's just accept that as a standard, then I want to hear Senator Lee to apply precisely the same standard to Donald Trump, who famously said that Viktor Orban was the fabulous leader of Turkey.

The idea that he is going to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza is just not credible.

The next two months, next two-and-a-half months need to look very different from the last two-and-a-half months. There are now some 28,000, 27,000 fatalities in Gaza. That just can't continue.