As Senator Braun and all of us have pointed out, that is not the case.

I would have to go back to when I first started in the early 1980's, and for anyone who does not remember that a home mortgage was a bargain in the late 1970's at 10 percent.

The Greatest Generation, that grew up in the Depression, fought a World War, highest debt we ever had, paid it off, built the interstate highways.

Older Americans play such a critical role throughout the economy.

That would be an unmitigated disaster for our entire nation because you do not reinvent the American farmer.

I led a bicameral letter with 67 of my colleagues, including Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, who came in when I did back in 2018, objecting to the then-proposed rule which would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and over $30 billion…

When you want to craft real solutions, maybe look more to your communities, your local and state governments.

I do not think so. I am going to vote for it. It is not going to pass anyway.

I was so fatigued of hearing how lucky I was that my health insurance costs are only going up five to ten percent each year.

43 percent of Americans retired...are thinking about coming out of retirement.

You cannot legislate through it, you can take a different Committee and do something with it.

This hearing is called to order. Welcome to the hearing. I am the Ranking Member of the Aging Committee.

You are giving them fish rather than teaching them to fish, and that is an unmitigated disaster for our country if we do not teach work ethic.

The next generation does not need to be made easier. They need to have the same hard experiences that maybe we did.

More funding is what everybody wants from D.C. I think until it starts actually cash-flowing, that is probably a business partner that I would be a little wary of.

We urge you to take up this legislation and help fix this travesty.

I think that when it comes to funding, probably it is going to be harder to get, because if you are going more and more in debt, you are asking your kids and grandkids to pay for it.

I would suggest get the grants from places that will have them available, dependably, and that is from entities that cash-flow and do not borrow to do it.