I have great respect for the United Nations Food Program.

I will tell you that I am very optimistic about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

No, $10 and $12 an hour are not livable wages. We need to have the $15 minimum wage, and that is a minimum wage.

I have never met anybody that said that. And he is speaking those words just like a wealthy elite. I don’t think he would know a working-class person if he was sitting next to one.

I have lived through that double standard throughout my 20-year career in public service and that now have the voice as a United States senator to call it out in this venue.

I think, hopefully, there`s an opportunity here to figure out what the best practices are for identifying and weeding out these, quote, unquote, bad apples so that law enforcement returns to a position of regaining trust in the community…

It`s an insulting double standard.

Absolutely, you know, and law enforcement across the country and even different branches of the military.

For a person like me, $381 billion, $400 billion, it is all just a lot of zeroes that is not being paid.

Is it correct that the Federal Government fails to collect taxes that it is owed to the tune of about $400 billion a year?

Who benefits from failing to collect taxes that are owed? Only the people that owe them that are not paying them.

On average, every year, we fail to collect $406 billion?

I am working on a comprehensive legislation to ensure access to tele-mental health--clinically appropriate without limiting access.

Telehealth has been, without a doubt, critical to preserving access to care during the public health emergency.

It was the CMS waivers issued early in the pandemic that were key to jump starting the widespread telehealth investment.

Audio-only telehealth services were rarely reimbursed by commercial payers and government programs before the pandemic.

They are the same policy changes we have been fighting for in Congress for years, commonsense solutions that broaden where services can be provided.

the pandemic has brought on serious increases in anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns that are likely to last long after we get the virus under control.