My Republican colleagues often blame the military's current recruitment crisis on DEI initiatives. They say the military is becoming too woke and that it is driving away recruits. The only problem with that is that the survey data we have…

So to get the teachers we need, we actually have to pay them something closer to what they are worth.

Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of whether it comes from a human or a machine.

There is no AI exception to our consumer protection laws.

$50 billion, with a ``B''--in emergency stabilization funding to help childcare providers stay solvent.

Congress stepped up and provided the childcare sector with a life raft, $50 billion in funding, during the pandemic.

The lender cannot discriminate and then claim, 'AI made me do it.'

We entrust early care and education professionals with our children. We require them to be well trained, and we relentlessly regulate their every activity with the children in their care.

In return, we pay them an unlivable wage with few benefits, ask them to risk their mental and physical health in challenging work conditions, and provide them with minimal respect as professionals.

We have 10 days until House Republicans force a catastrophic government shutdown; 10 days until the food assistance that nearly 50 million Americans rely on, including 6 million women and children, is put in jeopardy; 10 days until seniors…

Breaking the law with fancy new tools is still breaking the law.

We entrust early care and education professionals with our children. We require them to be well trained, and we relentlessly regulate their every activity with the children in their care.

We have got to get high-speed trains that people can actually see and ride like they have in the rest of the world.

We have this technology on intercontinental ballistic missiles. I think if it can survive an intercontinental ballistic missile in space, it can handle the underside of a freight car.

I was shocked to see Boston's South Station expansion listed as one of the priorities on the Northeast Corridor project inventory.

Just to pick up on that line of questioning, Mr. Secretary, is there any plan for users of EVs to pay the increased costs that the additional weight and wear and tear on the highways their vehicles creates for the highway system?

So to get the teachers we need, we actually have to pay them something closer to what they are worth.

We need to make sure that our existing laws are used to protect consumers.