I am pleased to join Senator Collins and Senators Van Hollen, Cortez Masto, and Klobuchar in introducing legislation that would permanently reauthorize the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Council or USICH. The…

Regulations ensure that our air is safe to breathe, our water is safe to drink, our food is safe to eat.

Congress already has the power to oversee agency rulemaking, and agencies can only exercise authority that we grant them.

they're hired in these agencies of the Federal Government because they bring with them life-saving training and science and expertise that we don't have as Members of Congress.

Certainly, in a negative way. We should be listening to those workers.

Regulations protect people in the first place. They help keep disasters like East Palestine from happening.

The REINS Act would grind the gears of rulemaking to a halt by requiring all major rules to be affirmatively approved by both Chambers of Congress.

I hope that in this hearing we can continue this bipartisan work, and look for concrete steps we can take together to address this deep challenge.

Make no mistake, China is the competitor with the greatest combination of intent and capacity to threaten U.S. global leadership.

It is clear that the Chinese Communist Party is taking a whole-of-government approach to advancing its ambitions at the expense of U.S. and democratic interests, and therefore we must take a whole-of-government approach to meeting that…

Prudence should be our watch word it seems.

I am delighted to follow Leader Schumer, for whom this has been such an important issue. I am confident that we will gather our caucus together to be as effective as we can. Today is International Women's Day, but this year it is shadowed…

This is yet another reason why it is important that this committee and this Congress focus on combating the rise of racially-motivated extremism here in the homeland as well.

I hope that in this hearing we can continue this bipartisan work, and look for concrete steps we can take together to address this deep challenge.

there is always a perennial debate on the level of foreign aid that we provide to those same nations

I am optimistic about the opportunity that lies ahead to build on these historic achievements.

Can you expand on your recommendation for the creation of an Economic Threat Intelligence entity, to combat corporate espionage and the theft of IP?

I apologize to you for being in the crosshairs of an obviously politicized effort to attack the Biden Administration.