Thank you so much, Chair Schatz and Vice Chair Murkowski, for holding this hearing today and including my bill, the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Technical Corrections Act of 2023.

The stories that I have heard are heartbreaking and enraging, families targeted, and exploited because of their religion and their inability to get access to a traditional mortgage.

You cannot have balloon payments. You cannot have rapidly increasing monthly payments that basically price people out of an ability to own their own home.

The seller keeps everything, and the person who has been paying in does not have any opportunity for any kind of redress at all.

We need to take a comprehensive and holistic approach.

We need to be investing in the development and manufacturing of new antibiotics in a market that isn't broken.

Well, I think one of the things that we learned from the pandemic is the threats that we have when we do not have onshored manufacturing of so many things, including antibiotics.

So I want to just start out by clarifying a bit about what is happening here with these contracts-for-deed.

We need to improve access to education about infection prevention measures like vaccines and handwashing.

We saw here a demonstrable crack in Vladimir Putin's strength. We saw visible rejection of his war policy by someone who had been an ally and now had turned into insubordination, taking over a city of a million people, marching his troops…

to the extent that we are able to pursue policies that strengthen the labor market, that contribute to the resiliency of the labor market, it seems as if that should help to mitigate the negative impacts on the labor market that rising…

to the extent that we are able to pursue policies that strengthen the labor market, that contribute to the resiliency of the labor market, it seems as if that should help to mitigate the negative impacts on the labor market that rising…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Blair Nelson, a friend and dedicated public servant who unexpectedly passed away on May 30. Those of us who knew Blair knew him for his devotion to his family and his selfless commitment to…

Clearly we are not there yet. Clearly we have more work to do.

The challenges we face in regard to rural broadband access is just another example where burdensome and slow permitting processes are holding our communities back.

The significant investments that we have been making in domestic manufacturing... are an important part of this success story.

We know that LGBTQ Americans continue to face violent attacks, and there's hateful rhetoric dehumanizing them.

Every American deserves equal access to civil rights and nondiscrimination protections.