However, owners and operators of critical infrastructure... that carries a heightened obligation and duty to be capable of delivering goods and services to citizens in this case all up and down the East Coast.

Granite Staters continue to contact my office about the backlog of unprocessed 2019 and 2020 tax returns.

I am encouraged that your 2022 budget request mentions the IRS's plan to retire and decommission its legacy systems.

I would look forward to that as well. And that interagency collaboration is really critical.

if we can boost their wages, we really could make a big difference for a lot of people.

As our economy continues to recover from the pandemic, we need strong leadership at the Department of Labor who will ensure safe workplaces for all workers.

We obviously need to support high quality workforce development to help them get back to work in good paying jobs.

Food insecurity is plaguing my state, and while I appreciate the role of the churches, I think that we as the government certainly have an important role in this as well to ensure equity.

Why would we ever allow a child to go hungry or to be denied a benefit?

Let's remember that SNAP is not a luxurious program.

My bipartisan legislation aims to bolster these systems and support real-time immunization record data exchange and reporting.

A key component to our continued vaccination efforts is ensuring that we have hard data collected to ensure that we can improve access in rural communities.

The progress we have seen these past few months in beating back COVID-19 has been nothing short of remarkable.

Frederick Douglass said it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men, and that is what we are talking about.

Efforts to cut or weaken SNAP, in my view, are simply cruel. No one should have to go hungry in America.

I do want to reorient the Committee back to the task at hand, which is the incredible opportunity, but also the obligation, to care for those in need in our community.

Thank you to you, Dr. Collins, and everyone at NIH for all of your hard work over the last very difficult year and for everything else you are doing.

I appreciate that this was done to address COVID challenges on either side of the border, but as we are having more and more people vaccinated, it has become less of an issue in the United States.