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That is a very sober assessment. We need to have a return to normalcy once this crisis passes.

Before I sign off, would you let the record show that on the Democratic side of the aisle, Mr. Veasey and I stayed with you till the end.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing today.

Money is not a cure-all solution and it is irresponsible to blindly throw more money at this situation.

We can and should be at work here in Washington, and I urge my Democrat colleagues to make that a priority moving forward.

Just as our teachers are working to overcome the many challenges this global pandemic poses, this Nation's elected officials must also step up and do the job they were elected to do.

Those were code words back during the voting rights movement, code words for States' rights, and I pushback whenever I hear that.

But that is our legislation, to provide 100 percent of the cost of the November election for every State in the country.

I am a D.C. politician. I am an elected official of 750,000 people.

I hope that is not the case. I was looking at a poll this morning, a Gallup poll, which said that 64 percent of those polled favor a vote-by-mail system.

I am just so disappointed that many of our Republican colleagues just cannot embrace a vote-by-mail idea.

I think our charge is to make sure that every voter has the absolute right to vote.

I ask you, please, with the greatest of respect and humility, please stop this 'defund the police' abomination before someone gets hurt.

There is something sickening and awful about what we witnessed happen to Mr. Floyd. This should not occur, we are better than that as a populace and a people, and we should respond together.

I think we all have an interest in ensuring that the broad base of the populous in our country, whether rural or urban, whether living on the margins or those who have newly found themselves living on the margins, that they have equal…

I appreciate, for one, the ability to do this, even though we are not physically this week in Washington.

Our Nation's frontline workers must be commended for their tireless work during this pandemic. I am reminded of the 2,200 employees in my district who work at the Tyson Food plant in Wilkesboro. These men and women come to work every day…

I can only hope that you and Secretary Scalia will wake up before it is too late.