I urge you to sharpen and focus this work because of the urgency of imposing greater costs on Putin's Russia for their aggression in Ukraine.

Russia should not be in the position to inform significant decision-making or hold a veto over policy.

I would like to thank our two witnesses today for your engagement in implementing the Biden administration's global leadership in pulling together our allies, not just in western Europe, but around the world, and imposing real costs on…

My administration is on alert and in action to help the people of Florida, have approved Florida's requests for emergency assistance immediately upon receiving it from the governor when I received it, and I directed my team to surge…

More often than not, we find the middle and work toward getting stuff done.

You are welcome to a committee today where we actually work across the aisle remarkably well.

I already telegraphed my pitch and indicated one of the things I am looking for is finding consensus.

Thank you so much for that thoughtful testimony.

I want to again commend our staffs for finding you and convincing you to come and join us.

Let the record show Ernst 1, chair zero.

It is time now to review the State of the Brownfields Program, and to examine what works well, to identify potential ways to update the program so it can best meet the evolving challenges that communities face.

It has been well documented that low-income communities and racial minorities are disproportionately exposed to environmental harm.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that the President signed into law 10 months ago, the most far-reaching, transformative infrastructure legislation in the history of the Country.

There are concerns that development of brownfields can do unintended harm by displacing the people who live there.

That is a pretty long question. I would be happy to repeat that if anybody wants me to.

Today we are going to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the program's reauthorization.

Should we be considering revoking Russia's membership in institutions like the IMF or the World Bank? That would be a significant and a bold step.

I yearn to live there someday.