"Let's make this a 'can.' We really do need those 30 gigawatts; we really do need these jobs."
"Can you just confirm that that money is in fact being appropriated to LGBTQI+ groups working on inclusive development programs around the world?"
"I think if we're going to do this, we've got to come up with a budget reform that moves us to a stable, sensible debt to GDP."
"Democracies consistently prove to be the most reliable geopolitical allies and trading partners for our country."
"If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that."
"We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession."
"Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default."
"I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts."
"Just a few weeks ago we heard from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin about the horrors being carried out in his country by Russian forces."
"Our ability to counter China requires us to show up; it requires us to show up in embassies; and it requires us to show up on the ground with money."
"So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple."
"Competing with China requires everyone on the field operating as a whole-of-Government, and working in a bipartisan way with Congress."
"This emphasis on community policing, which you are right, Boston has been doing for decades, is a lesson well-learned."
"To our law enforcement witnesses, thank you for your selfless service."
"I find it disturbing that some of our colleagues have taken to calling for Federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and the ATF to be defunded."
"We must continue to fight for common-sense gun safety laws so that neighborhoods are safe from gun violence and police officers are never outgunned."
"States like mine that have passed common-sense gun safety laws like background checks, red-flag laws, and ghost gun and high-capacity magazine bans generally see lower levels of gun violence and offic..."
"In the last several years, 504 police officers were killed on duty in the United States, and of those, 456 officers were fatally shot with a gun."
