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I was sorry we could not meet the full request, but we tried to get close.

Every time House Republicans propose blanket across-the-board cuts to domestic spending... they are in effect proposing that more seniors waiting longer and longer for benefits they were promised and getting less help.

If benefit cuts are now off the table, that proposal is dead, yet there is no other Republican bill.

Social Security today, not ten years from now but today, is struggling to serve more customers than ever with staffing levels reduced to 50 year lows.

The American people deserve better. In fact, they have already paid for better.

We could finally do away with the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset, which hurts so many retired public servants across Rhode Island and the country.

The bipartisan rebuke to cutting Social Security's customer service I think was heard throughout the country, and was a great encouragement to our workers.

I introduced a bill to transition the essential functions of PRAC to a permanent entity called the Government Spending Oversight Committee.

That would be a tip-off.

The companion bill to the one I have introduced in the House has broad bipartisan support over in the Senate.

There was never seemingly a difference on the issue of fraud, because it affected all of our constituents.

I continue to believe that our biggest challenge is to prevent the fraud to begin with, to stop it before it starts.

I've often, as you know, Mr. Chairman, gone on the record to vocalize my support for our work on this committee on the pandemic and the aftermath, because, at its very core, if we do it correctly, it will better prepare all of us for…

In fact, Donald Trump's knowing and willful lies cost America at least tens of thousands of deaths, according to his own White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx.

The broader and authentic context for this hearing is, of course, the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's reckless and incompetent pandemic response.

But I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I'm appalled by the majority's decision to evade and bypass the central events of the epidemic for totally political reasons.

The American people deserve honesty, transparency, and integrity from their public officials, full stop.

Any public official who sought to obscure transparency or mislead the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic should answer to the American public regardless of political party.