Last month, I led a delegation to Georgia to visit the three Asian-owned small businesses where eight people were murdered, six of them Asian women.

flooding the market with low-wage labor does enormous economic harm to working Americans.

We have 100,000 labor-certified, Department of Labor-certified positions that are unfilled right now that need workers...

the majority seems to be working overtime to make it worse.

flooding the labor market with low-wage labor just at the time when working Americans are trying to regain the prosperity.

I have been active in leading the effort to fight anti-Asian hate crimes which increased with Trump's usage of the terms China virus, Wuhan virus, and Kung flu.

Two weeks ago I met with President Biden to discuss how the administration can work with the AAPI community to put a stop to this hatred.

This morning's hearing is to examine the trends and research into long COVID, a chronic syndrome occurring in patients infected by COVID-19.

This research suggests that in the United States, where there have been more than 32 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, there could be millions of long-haulers with chronic symptoms.

I think there is absolutely bipartisan agreement to that point.

I look forward to working with Chairwoman Johnson, Ranking Member Lucas, and Chairwoman Stevens in moving the 'NSF for the Future Act' through the Committee in a bipartisan process.

My fear is that, as acute COVID uncovered our Nation's failures at emergency response and equitable healthcare, long COVID will uncover our failures at fairly treating chronic disease and disability.

For sure, Federal leadership is going to be needed to coordinate and address the swell of the long-haul COVID patients.

As we make these investments, we should also ensure we avoid duplicating the R&D activities of other Federal agencies.

We cannot allow the CCP to advance its authoritarianism on the backs of American taxpayer-funded research.

We must also secure taxpayer-funded research and technologies from adversaries, especially from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The President is messaging this as the way to compete with China, but I would argue that we will not beat China by copying its strategy.

And I think some people think that somebody who is expressing or treating somebody in a racist way has got a bad heart.