I echo Senator Portman's sentiments about ensuring that schools may receive FEMA funds for personal protective equipment (PPE) dating back to the beginning of the pandemic.

It is great to be with you. And I think as you can see from this hearing today, conversation around infrastructure is a marathon and not a sprint.

We have to get connectivity to everybody, and it has to be what they can afford.

it's also going to be important that we provide people with disabilities the kind of information they need so they can report violations, and that they can do that in a straightforward way.

It's work we need to do, and I look forward to working with our colleagues on it.

that is why it is even more critical that the VA and the DoD takes swift action to implement the Commander John Scott Hannon Act, my bipartisan bill with the Ranking Member Moran.

I assume artificial intelligence and technology can help us keep track of what we have in the National Strategic Stockpile, for example, and again, match supplies to need in a much more efficient way.

I do think when I talk to people back in New Hampshire they are really eager to know who the veterans are in their midst.

Recent data shows a more than 9 percent decline Nationally in students completing their free application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, this year.

I recently introduced the Gateway to Careers Act with Senators Young, Kaine, and Collins.

I will be reintroducing the bipartisan, bicameral Solid Start Act in the coming weeks to amplify and expand this program.

I will work with the commission, Senator Cassidy, and the Members of the Subcommittee to introduce legislation to address the issues that we will discuss today, to better prepare communities all across the United States to manage future…

I want to thank our great Ranking Member, Senator Moran, along with Senator Boozman and Senator Blumenthal and our House colleagues for helping all of us work together to push this bill through.

Climate change poses an existential crisis to humanity, and the most important thing we can do to prevent not only our country but the world from experiencing the worst effects of climate change, including the dramatic weather patterns…

It is the right stakeholders as well as leadership of those stakeholders to make sure that they are at the table.

I want to commend the VA for its use of telehealth services and its quick shift to virtual operations for the Veterans Crisis Line when the virus took hold of the Nation.

I think I speak for many people when I say simply, how could this have happened in the United States of America?

I share the concern raised by my colleagues regarding how COVID-19 has impacted students who experience disabilities.