Community Development Financial Institutions and Minority Depository Institutions provide a range of critical supports to underserved communities.

Our country is facing a historic housing crisis, with the impact falling hardest on low-income families and communities of color.

But our child-care system is in crisis.

History demonstrates that we best serve Native American people when Tribal Governments are empowered to lead their communities, and when Federal officials speak with and listen to Tribal leaders in formulating Federal policy that affects…

I believe one study that I read showed that providers have seen nearly a 50-percent increase in their costs, in part due to the pandemic.

So families are paying more. Child-care centers are spending more--things like masks and tests, their ratios of supervisors to children--and yet child-care workers are not making any more money.

My American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would invest $25 billion in the Capital Magnet Fund over 10 years.

I thank Chair Maloney and Ranking Member Comer for the great work they have done on this bill. As the son of a postal worker, my mom; as the brother of two postal workers, my sisters Karen and Linda; and as a nephew and cousin to about at…

Let's just talk about that as a state-of-the-art for the industry, and there still is no known meltdown for a solar or a wind project in the United States.

When I was in Kabul, the delegation from Congress arrives wearing armor, helmets.

we are actually marking at $200 billion for carbon capture, and $200 billion for carbon capture and sequestration.

How do we make sure that those courageous people get the funding?

So, in addition to nuclear plant bailout, which is in this bill, there is also a doubling down on the infrastructure bill, and it is a $2.5 billion Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program by making taxpayers foot that bill for additional…

this is a perfect subject for discussion in the Build Back Better Bill.

I am very open in the Build Back Better Bill to adding on to what we already voted for in the infrastructure bill for the nuclear industry.

I believe that these two issues can be pursued in parallel.

Just know that we are committed to having the United States be a leader once again by the end of this year so that the world has our nation to look to once again.

I think what I heard clearly was, new American nuclear is an economic opportunity, important to global security, and a climate imperative. It needs to be enabled now.