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Let me begin by thanking you, Chairwoman Fudge, for your leadership on this issue.

Discrimination still exists. We must acknowledge this fact and do all we can to ensure that every American can exercise his or her right to vote.

We must recognize our faults and continue to move forward. We must progress.

The right to vote is fundamental to a strong, thriving democracy.

Voting rights are fundamental to our democracy and must be protected for all citizens.

The Federal Highway Administration's latest estimate for the Emergency Relief program identified $1.3 billion in projects in disaster-affected areas. This bill actually contains something more than that: $1.65 billion. But the FHWA…

This bill before us today makes no structural changes to improve access to or delivery of care. It would limit healthcare choices and stifle State level innovation that has proven to lower premiums. This bill does not help those with…

I believe my amendment speaks for itself. My friends on the other side of the aisle are playing political games with their bill trying to convince the American people that it would accomplish something that it would not. I have offered a…

We need to be treating all sectors equally.

One of the things I am proud of is that we as a committee have really begun to talk about skills education in conjunction with what has traditionally been called higher education or as I prefer to call it, post-secondary education.

There is nobody who is a more, who is a greater advocate of community colleges than I am.

I do not understand why we want to burden people all over this country to pay for programs for prisons by giving them Pell Grants when the States themselves can take care of this.

We should have accountability for all sectors of education because the tax payers are paying one way or another for what passes as education in these institutions.

I believe perpetuating this narrative while convenient for institutions of post-secondary education is detrimental to perspective students who will take on more debt and spend more time than perhaps necessary to complete their studies.

I think this is a ridiculous rule.

We are the source for the future workshop and what we call new collar jobs, jobs that are middle skills that pay well.

I represent a low-income district in eastern North Carolina, and so many of my constituents simply cannot afford drug prices.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, for convening this very important hearing.