We intend to do that.

As we talk about staffing and creating a better capacity for us to deal with these diseases, we discussed last year, a permanent forest pathologist to help the region address existing and emerging pests and pathogens.

I want to continue to work with my colleagues and the Forest Service to ensure that this particular project, as well as the other projects, are funded and continues to proceed.

Can you please give me an update?

It's not like the condition of our transportation infrastructure is a secret.

Mahalo also to my brother and my freshman colleague from New York for allowing me this opportunity to speak about something really important in our country, and that is the American Families Plan. Today, I rise in support of our Nation's…

I just think there is going to be a patient revolt if--you know, 10 years ago if you told someone to interact with their clinician via their iPhone, it would be an insult.

We must admit that resilience is not a luxury.

I agree with the Secretary that it is time for bold action.

Are there specific places we need to burrow into the bureaucracy, or into the statutory law to make sure these things stick?

I just think we need more regulatory staff. If you're going to enforce the law, you need people to do so.

And so, I just think we are underestimating the extent to which people are going to freak out in 18 months, if something that was fantastic and available is suddenly not.

To what extent are any of the expansions of telehealth services, dependent on or precipitated by the pandemic?

we have to find ways to either change things, like how much we allow vouchers to really be effective

The President's budget addresses the affordable housing crisis head on, and dramatically strengthens our social safety net for the most vulnerable among us.

Look, we have got to appropriate money to affordable housing, but the truth is, lots of local governments are actually creating housing shortages and then lamenting housing shortages.

This is not just a safety issue for the residents of public housing, it is an issue of both racial justice and climate justice.

Decades of discriminatory housing policies have segregated neighborhoods, creating economic inequality for minority communities.