Yet today, there is no way for shippers to verify the safety of their motor carriers.

Will you continue to work with me to ensure that Next Era is properly managing alkali silica reaction at Seabrook?

Without effective enforcement, trade liberalization measures can have a detrimental effect on America's workers and industries.

We understand that U.S. trade policies should not come at the expense of American jobs or the rights of workers at home and abroad.

House Democrats, with leadership of this committee, paved the way for the May 10 agreement which brought labor and environmental provisions to the core of the U.S. trade agreements and made them enforceable for the first time.

We believe that no supply chain should contain products made with forced labor.

President Biden and congressional Democrats continue to push an economic and trade agenda that is focused not only on building the economy, but that benefits all members of the working families in America and across our great country.

Families at home are hurting.

SVB, Signature Bank, and First Republic all lobbied Congress to weaken the guardrails, preventing them from making risky bets with depositors' money.

The lessons, I think, are clear. Regulators need to strengthen bank oversight, and Congress must reinstate stronger rules.

For those--for that cohort, people over 65 people, with preexisting conditions, immunocompromised, they still have to act as though the pandemic is still going on, in terms of protecting themselves.

Thank you. And thank you all for the historically great work which you did to have our Country respond the way it did.

We need to strengthen our financial watchdogs' ability to impose fines, ban bad actors from the banking industry, and claw back compensation.

You know, it is clear that giving regulators power to do something is not always enough. Congress needs to force regulators to use it, which is what Senators Cortez Masto, Hawley, Braun's and my bill does.

Yes, I think that is a very important signal because it is a tale of two pandemics.

So in its postmortem of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Fed found that legislation passed out of this Committee in 2018, led to weakened rules for big banks that were major contributors to Silicon Valley Bank's failure.

Congress needs to put in place tough rules that make sure that executives pay up when their actions lead directly to a bank failure.

That is why Senator Cortez Masto, Senator Hawley, Senator Braun, and I introduced a bipartisan bill to ensure that when executives crash their banks and threaten the banking system, those executives are forced to give up their fancy…