Since the 2008 financial crisis, the private equity industry has exploded, tripling the amount they manage from $1.5 trillion to $4.5 trillion.

It is ensuring that we do more than just recover to a pre-COVID unjust status or normal.

Meanwhile, private equity CEOs are living lavishly, and pocketing billions of dollars in profit off of the backs of these hard-working families struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

Housing is a human right. I know our chairwoman agrees. I implore you to take action to help address these egregious behaviors.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for convening this important and timely hearing.

It has been well-documented how private equity firms were protected from the 2008 economic crisis.

Facebook is like Big Tobacco, enticing young kids with that first cigarette, that first social media account designed to hook kids as users for life.

I share your concern regarding the role of China at the IDB and if confirmed, I will exercise the United States' voice and vote at the IDB in partnership with like-minded countries to uphold IDB's strategic priorities--social inclusion…

I urge swift confirmation for Erik, an adopted son of the Commonwealth, for this important post.

If confirmed, rebuilding the workforce of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC) would be my top management priority.

To me, that is far more powerful.

I share your concern with the high rates of hunger and chronic malnutrition around the world, which have only deepened during the pandemic.

the administration is putting human rights at the center of foreign policy and seeking concrete human rights improvements in Egypt--a goal I strongly support.

The best way to achieve a world without nuclear weapons is through a process that takes into account the international security environment.

I will not take any extended time except to just recommend Scott Nathan as just an exemplary public servant, someone who will make a huge difference.

While I understand and share the desire to make progress toward a world without nuclear weapons, the TPNW is not the right way to achieve that goal.

The treatment of Uyghurs in China is just one brutal example of the Chinese Government's long-standing disregard for basic human rights.

There should be little doubt that the right basic framework for thinking about our relationship with China today is strategic competition.