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I truly understand the difficulties of the burdens that we're now placing upon students in overwhelming debt.

Sadly, the truth is that colleges and universities, not the students, are the major beneficiaries of the Pell Grant program.

Congress created a very generous Federal student aid system.

This past summer, I introduced the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act, which would create a new program to provide high-quality, frequent public transit.

This is an issue that we should be able to embrace on a bipartisan basis.

I urge my colleagues to support the rule, my amendments, and the underlying bill.

I particularly admire those line officers and the investigators that you have, sir, Mr. Condon, for the way they persist in the face of misguided policy.

The last Administration followed most of it that was in statute, so they deserve a little bit of credit for having accomplished something that none of us thought they could do.

Every Administration has recreated the wheel and Congress 20 years ago had a vision of what we needed, and we put it in place.

Congress deserves as much criticism as any Administration out there, period. End of sentence.

Let me just remind you, the shelf life of Congress funding programs is about 18 to 36 months.

If you are not vaccinated, get vaccinated.

[t]he window to update our public health and medical preparedness policies is now.

Every American owes it to everybody to get vaccinated.

We should be looking at how we are better than China, how do we improve ourselves, how do we ensure that private sector innovation continues.

As Fed Chair Powell says, it is better for the U.S. to get a central bank digital currency right than to be first.

Congress must wrestle with this, and it is on us to legislate this into existence if that is the right thing to do.

Thank you for the incredible work that each of you does on the Commission.