This investment will help improve access to effective, affordable medical care for so many people in my district and will improve quality of life throughout our community.

Access to higher education is a critical path to the middle class for millions of Americans, including so many in my district.

Under the Trump administration, the value of economic development and foreign assistance in advancing U.S. foreign policy was met with skepticism.

I am pleased that you have been an engaged partner when it comes to the United States' humanitarian aid and international development initiatives.

Nothing is perhaps more critical to our conversation on healthy aging than the concerns for the specific physical and mental health needs of our seniors.

I know what it's like to be cheated out of wages. Unfortunately, when I was young man, I was a victim.

We all should be focused on getting rid of the bad actors and making sure that everybody plays by the same rules.

There's a distinction between a good contractor who does the right thing and might a mistake and what we're going to hear here in a few minutes.

So, this isn't an accident by any stretch of the imagination and that's what I'm trying to suggest here to my colleagues.

We need more workers in this country.

I am so proud of what this subcommittee has done to fund the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

But there is a significant amount of folks in the black community and communities of color and women that right now are sidelined or working in jobs that they are not earning a living wage.

I am introducing a bill, H.R.--or I have introduced, it is 7345, the Children's Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety of 2022, which is intended to address this issue to protect children in agriculture.

How about your recruitment efforts and interactions with and outreach to the HBCUs?

What specifically do you see planning out to reach them and then to engage them?

Do you have enough staff that will be able to monitor what is happening to ensure that these programs are moving in the direction and in a manner that you want?

I have agreed with your assessment of things and our need to ensure that there is better inclusion and better jobs.

I think unions are vitally important to the education of our children, and I am glad that the NEA, and AFT, and every other union is standing up for them.