"We are already behind other countries, and that is a problem."
"I think as much as we would like to stay at home, we actually have to begin to hold the government to the same standards that we hold private industry to."
"To end the opioid epidemic, we have to be just as serious about expanding access to drug treatment resources as we are about cracking down on drug traffickers."
"At some point in time, we have to figure out solutions to the issues, and these are very complicated, very complex issues."
"The high cost of healthcare remains a struggle for small businesses, many of whom are facing lingering hardships from the pandemic as well as inflation, which is a tax on everyone."
"President Biden's open border policies have exacerbated the fentanyl crisis."
"Anything that has been said about the IRA is all picking out of the air. It hasn't been fully implemented yet, thank God."
"What we do here will just put us behind other polluters that aren't going to clean up their world, like China."
"Nobody is against electric vehicles if they work and if the consumer wants them."
"Let's let the engineers and let's let the consumers decide what they want and what they need."
"Illicit fentanyl presents one of the biggest, if not the biggest, threat to public safety that the United States, in my opinion, has ever seen."
"I share all my colleagues' concerns on both sides of the aisle about the impact of this pandemic on our children."
"Unless we choke their money supply off, we are not fixing this problem."
"So, despite knowing the challenges teachers were facing and acknowledging the pandemic's health risks, especially in hotspots, Ms. Weingarten, were you ever given guidance by the Trump Administration ..."
"Senator Stabenow and I have also called for the VA to initiate... the process of appointing permanent leadership."
"Last year, I led a letter on behalf of 28 bipartisan senators calling for robust funding for the VA State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program."
"the Chinese money laundering plan/scheme does it more efficiently, right, in hours instead of weeks, charges less of an interest rate--two percent as opposed to seven or eight."
"For the middle-income person, that is not their car of choice."
