the grave impact it would have on Federal employees if it were implement, and, consequently, the grave impact it would have on recruitment of Federal employees.

I trust you to do your job. I just do not know why we need to spend this kind of money, outside a system, when this is going to be a recurring problem.

What I disagree with is...why we need to hire a firm and spend $40,000 per hire to that firm.

But why do we need to sign a contract with someone else to do something that we would expect you guys were doing, in terms of recruitment?

Maybe you ought to take that $40,000 and incentivize somebody to move there.

We have to change how people look at employment within these agencies.

I want to follow up a little bit on HMDA and clarify... nothing in this bill that will be debated next week undermines the Fed's ability to enforce fair lending laws.

I think they need to look at why people are leaving

But you would acknowledge that our bill preserves the traditional HMDA data collection on race?

When you train together and when you train with a common purpose you achieve culture change.

We are not in a spot where we are a preferred employer anymore.

I think it is important that we have a very spirited debate about this, but I think it also is very important that we put it in perspective and that we not exaggerate the results here or the purpose of this bill.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today and also for consideration of my bill, S. 2074.

I worked with colleagues to introduce legislation to address this barrier for tribes and increase STR resources--the Opioid Response Enhancement Act (S. 2437) with Senator Baldwin.

Mr. President, I rise today to honor the U.S. women's hockey team for their outstanding victories in the 2018 Winter Olympics. All told, the team won four games, including two 5-to-0 wins over Finland and Russia, and finished as champions…

the last thing that we can afford is a distorted or unproductive market

After all, you know, Al Capone even had to pay taxes, so even if we do not think that this is all legitimate and some of it is nefarious, we need to know what it is.

Members of these communities, our first Americans, deserve to be counted as Americans.