I do remain concerned Director Yang of potential OFCCP discrimination regarding faith-based organizations.

The work of EEOC and OFCCP is important. It too often becomes a weapon against job creators.

the best solution in my mind is more transparency and more competition, and you mentioned some of that earlier in some other answers.

I never judge an agency by an individual case, but sometimes looking at an individual case gives you a thumbnail that there may be issues.

It is the American people that we serve.

I appreciate that. And this is an instance where the SBA that we all love and embrace can actually do some good for a small business, on a specific level.

I think all of us have allowed COVID to manage us too long. It is time to manage it.

First of all, let me say that this is an oversight hearing and I am glad you are holding the oversight hearing.

It's ironic that an agency tasked with preventing and combatting unlawful discrimination is pushing the door open for faith-based organizations to be discriminated against.

These sanctions were always intended to have an effect over the long term and we expect that they will.

We want this war to be a strategic failure for Russia.

Our goal is number one, we want Ukraine to win. We want them to be successful on the battlefield as they were in Kyiv. We want them to be successful everywhere, and repel the Russians from their country.

We have continued -- we have seen Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation make really inappropriate comments throughout this process. They have made comments about nuclear weapons before. We have said we don`t think that`s an appropriate…

The president has been very clear about calling these atrocities out for what they are.

Reserving my right to object, let me begin by saying my friends and colleagues across the aisle are right about one thing: Gas prices are incredibly higher right now in this country. The effort to blame this on what has happened in…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

I rise in strong support for Senator Schumer's request for unanimous consent for the Senate to proceed to the en bloc consideration of H.R. 6968, the Russian oil ban, and H.R. 7108, the Russian permanent normal trade relations legislation…

Yes or no, should they pay for it.