It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

Rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have.

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.

I mean, how do you justify a 65 percent increase in this when it was just increased, I guess, what, 4 years ago under the Trump administration?

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us.

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Secretary, for being here.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Secretary, for being here.

It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

I hope to, again, work in a bipartisan way to fund our joint priorities, such as finding cures and treatments for cancer.

This is stupid. And we just keep piling it on like it is-- there is no end to it.

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

This is stupid. And we just keep piling it on like it is-- there is no end to it.