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

The 2020 Census I think, quite frankly, never mind this issue, is in trouble.

Mr. Speaker, let me, at the outset, as Chairman Shimkus did, express how special it was to watch a chairman and a staff director work, I think I daresay, as peers, as a team. That is very unusual in a place where titles seem to matter more…

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about paid family leave. I want to introduce this topic by saying that politicians across America, whether they are local, whether they are in State offices, or whether they are in very important bodies…

If we are going to do the right kind of oversight, we cannot have this kind of disparate jurisdictional challenges.

If there are specific legislative requests that you have for that, we need to know, and so we can help work through that process.

there is a boatload of money that is coming your way, and if we cannot trust that you are spending it right, if we cannot trust that the decisions are being made based on evidence-related factors and by professionals, this is not going to…

You need to get this house in order----

And if that money is just going to be poofed and we look back on this time and say in our rush to get this done, we did not do the right oversight, then shame on us.

if we cannot see an IG report and all the attachments, we are not doing oversight, right?

Let us quit pretending that 15 years of dispersed jurisdiction here is acceptable and we have to wait longer.

But let us not pretend that we are going to get a broad reauthorization oversight capacity here with this kind of mixed jurisdiction.

I think state policy does matter. And while I agree that communities ought to have some competitiveness about how they-- and some control over their own regulation, there should be a minimum standard that makes sure that the country is…

I think it is critically important that we make the public understand that we simply went in the bill from designating automatically to basically allowing the regulators to designate some entity as a SIFI.

We need a result for these pensions. And I want to thank the Ranking Member for the excellent work that he and his staff have done on this.

What are the strategies not just dealing with China, but what are the strategies to deal with these precursor problems?

This is not just limited, and if we just simply focus on drug interdiction and on China, which is our immediate problem, we will miss the opportunity to fix the broader problem.

I think it is really important that we not spend all of our time here simply focused on China.