"Racial slurs are not a national security strategy."
"The Chinese Communist Party is adept at Russian propaganda efforts to interfere in our elections and advance its own objectives."
"As policymakers, we have the responsibility to weigh our words carefully, especially during discussions like the one that we are having here today."
"We should address that issue seriously, and we can and must do so without stigmatizing and discriminating against people based on their identities."
"we are talking about converting from a commuter rail system to simply taking people in and out of the city to a regional rail system that will fundamentally get people around the Commonwealth faster."
"Anti-Asian racism is pervasive in this country. Republican rhetoric and policies have helped to normalize it."
"This is deeply unjust."
"The nursing home industry, however, has fiercely opposed this proposal, claiming that the nursing workforce is not big enough."
"the CMS should move quickly to finalize this proposed rule and should make it even stronger."
"reasonable staffing ratios would, rather than limit access to care settings, improve care and stabilize staffing at nursing homes and other care settings."
"These Republican attacks against the Bureau are baseless. They do nothing to support or benefit the people, our shared constituents."
"People are certainly entitled to their opinions, but not to their own version of the truth."
"According to a recent poll, 82 percent of all voters, including 77 percent of all Republicans, support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its mission to protect consumers."
"Despite this, Republicans are trying to overturn this rule. They are choosing to defend a deeply exploitive late fee practice."
"Democrats took a different path, and now our economy is the strongest in the world."
"Republicans have now wasted the last 16 months on chaos, conspiracies, and, of course, talk of more tax cuts."
"They lump all taxpayers together into one undifferentiated group, and then claim that 'an average taxpayer' receives a significant benefit from TCJA."
"In the last three decades our Republican colleagues have skyrocketed the deficit with trillions of dollars in tax cuts."
