We should not deport Haitians back to Haiti. That is what we should not do.

In a sense, there is no free lunch, that we are borrowing from future generations.

Obviously, that would not be achievable for any length of time, and that means that American families, kids, seniors would go hungry.

Farmers in my district did a pretty good job in donating food throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given the high rate of food insecurity among our military families, do you believe that the Federal Government should develop and support targeted solutions to help end food insecurity among those currently serving?

SNAP is so important in this crisis, and it is also a situation which is being remedied or addressed at least with the American Rescue Plan.

Food banks, as important as they are, we cannot food bank our way out of this.

United Fresh members fully support the House Agriculture Committee's efforts to bring attention to the millions of Americans who are still struggling to make ends meet.

Every week that I am in the district, I get out to a food bank, and as you can imagine, I have seen those lines only get longer, unfortunately.

As many of you know, I come from the Central Coast of California, and as Zippy Duvall knows well, they call it the Salad Bowl of the World.

I think it is important that government understands that we do have a responsibility of making sure that the guidelines and the lanes in which these incredibly prolific and lucrative businesses are in our homes and in the eyeballs and the…

We all kind of anticipated the learning loss, but then we started to see job market impacts, disproportionately impacting women.

let me tell you this. I think it is important that everybody understand that these negative effects, they do not see color. They do not see race. They do not see gender. A child is a child is a child.

This rule also would have required them to record illnesses as well, is that right?

So tell me why this rule was so important.

I have legislation which I've introduced, H.R. 1180, the Accurate Workplace Injury and Illness Record Restoration Act, which would restore OSHA's ability to cite employers who systematically fail to record workplace injuries and illnesses.

thank goodness President Biden has said all teachers, everyone that works in the school, should be vaccinated

I hope that after today's hearing we will keep these issues in focus, and that is why today, along with my colleague, Representative Trahan, I introduced the Youth Mental Health-Suicide Prevention Act.