"I want to thank you for your tremendous service to our country, Attorney General Garland, and to say that with you, under the Biden Administration, your Department of Justice has shown remarkable inde..."
"I'm disappointed that the president has sort of gone into the same frame as Donald Trump at a very time when we need to make a distinction between Donald Trump and Joe Biden."
"I have been insisting that we find a solution to address the extremely tight spending caps we are facing."
"The Inflation Reduction Act has tasked the Treasury Department with an indispensable role in fighting the climate crisis."
"It is no exaggeration to say that getting this rulemaking right may deliver tens of thousands of high-wage jobs while reducing emissions."
"I think it would be dramatic. And as you pointed out, in 2021 CTC is credited with having--it is the leading driver behind a 46 percent reduction in child poverty."
"It is really important to me that Americans can retire with dignity."
"Well, the President has requested in this budget request to expand the Child Tax Credit and to make permanent full refundability and also advanceability."
"That expansion nearly cut child poverty rates in half from the previous year, but that progress is being reversed with the expiration now of the CTC."
"When we talk about the history of how all of these happened, let's not ignore the lack of political representation that women had."
"The struggle for equal pay, for equal work, continues to this day."
"We hear a lot of talk about freedom in this body, freedom to do what you want to do, and yet right now we are living at a time when half of our population or more has lost that freedom."
