So we are placing an undue burden on employers when, in fact, we are, as a former colleague said, we are socializing the responsibilities around COVID-19 to employers and taxpayers.

A 2016 report showed that AmeriCorps funds were used for abortion services which is illegal.

With all due respect sir you cannot make such a clam because without a proper audit and accountability we have no idea where all the funds are going.

Do you plan on doing any sanctions at all in the near future?

I am very concerned that the Administration is not taking inflation's threat seriously.

It would be helpful for you to clarify what your current projection is for when Treasury would run out of headroom to operate below the debt limit and run dangerously low of operating cash.

Do you agree that inflation is a serious threat to our economy, and how do you intend to address inflation?

Putin openly endorses increasingly authoritarian rulers with the goal of destabilizing the region and threatening insecurity.

I wonder if both of you could speak to the fact that in the last presidential campaign then candidate Biden had promised sanctions on Maduro and the regime and nothing has happened in these 10 months.

Nicaragua joins Cuba on a seemingly bottomless descent into authoritarianism.

Equally concerning is the negative effect of malign state actors such as China and Russia.

The Administration's plan to remove the FARC from the foreign terrorists list undermines U.S. national security and democratic stability in Colombia.

Within less than a generation, Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro have turned Venezuela into a failed state.

The United States has had an enduring interest in a stable and prosperous Western Hemisphere and the democratic order is the best guarantor of those things.

I am reserving the right to object. I want to speak today on behalf of my amendment, Risch No. 4794, which is not included on that list, which I have introduced with cosponsors Senators Portman, Cruz, Barrasso, Johnson, Cotton, Daines, and…

implementing a contractionary monetary policy by debiting those accounts.

perceived as the Government 'taking away' people's money.

central bank accounts fully replace, rather than uneasily coexist with, private bank deposits.