For years now, I have advocated for Congress to focus on climate solutions, particularly solutions that bring people together rather than drive us apart.
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Let them earn it. Don't give it on the front end, earn it on the back end.
What is the dropout rate? You ever look at the dropout rate?
We need to get that definition on the same wavelength.
Where I disagree a little bit on community and technical colleges, and I disagree on free.
I know that we put, myself and Murkowski, and all of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle supported $800 million going into that.
The $800 million for homeless education through ARP (American Rescue Plan) is critically important.
I worked alongside Senator Murkowski and others to introduce the Emergency Family Stabilization Act;
I want to once again thank you for working with myself and Senator Murkowski on getting out the first tranche of the American Rescue Plan funding for homeless children and youth in an expedited manner.
You cannot get ahead of the curve if you don't start at 3 and 4 years of age.
I have really a problem with homelessness with children.
The 340B program is essential for providing access to safe and affordable medications for low-income West Virginians.
I think our State in many sections of our State, and Senator Manchin I think would agree here, have come forth with some tremendous ideas to be solutions to the problem that are community based.
If we know that these opioids are causing the problem, we need treatment centers, and we have not enough.
We had 90,000 Americans die from overdose last year. My State's been hit the hardest.
I believe testing and strategic reserve is where those dollars came from, to address the migrant crisis at the border.
I really think we could do that in a bipartisan way, because I tell you, we're all being affected.
This would be consistent. $2 billion a year. One penny is $2 billion a year.