Patients all over the country are hopeful that this Congress may finally work together to address healthcare costs.

I too have concerns about prior authorization and denials within Medicare.

Transparency is essential for patients and employers to know and plan for their healthcare costs. It is foundational to rebuilding the doctor-patient relationship.

ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical

We need to tackle this crisis now before there is more lasting damage.

Effective water management is essential to keeping our families healthy, our environment thriving and our economy competitive.

This is so important. We have to stay apprised of this progress and we need to keep moving on this.

You know, industrial emissions made up roughly 30 percent of the U.S. climate emissions, and to address the climate crisis we need to modernize our industrial manufacturing base, and work to reduce emissions across the cement, steel…

I look forward to working together on this year's appropriations bills, to make sure that we provide the Department of Energy and National Security Administration the resources that you need.

President Biden's budget shows he also understands that when we make a promise to our veterans our word has to be ironclad.

Bottom line, if we fail to fund the VA and in a timely way, it is our Nation's veterans who pay the price.

I will do everything we can to live up to that obligation.

we cannot seed ground and let countries like China get ahead of us and capitalize on the defining discoveries of the future.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

Water is just too important to our families, our economy, and our Nation to take for granted.

Let us be clear, anything other than a regular appropriations process will have negative impacts across the VA.

I rise today to honor and congratulate Mrs. Jeanne Kohl-Welles on her retirement following 30 years of work in elected office. Jeanne retires from Washington's King County Council, where she has served as vice chair of the council and…

Today's hearing marks another important step as we work to return to regular order and pass in a timely bipartisan way our funding bills to keep our families safe, our economy strong, and our Nation competitive with adversaries like China.