These increases have helped the NIH regain ground from the years of largely flat funding in inflation-adjusted dollars.

This administration's inflation forecast has already showed prices rising this year at nearly twice the pre-pandemic rate.

You have chosen her to create guardrails for the entire Federal Government for free speech.

I had serious concerns that our country would not return to our pre-pandemic unemployment levels, which had been the lowest since the late 1960s.

Last year, when you testified before this Subcommittee, I spoke a great deal about how the COVID-19 pandemic put an unprecedented strain on our economy and its workforce.

Your priority is setting up a board and hiring someone who has gone to TikTok to talk about stopping speech she does not like.

We were recently shocked when we were informed that 42 people who have come to our Southern Border unlawfully and been encountered by the Border Patrol are on a terrorist watch list.

Of course, they were not altered.

It is wrong for the Federal Government to dictate what that workforce should look like, and for bureaucrats in Washington to determine the speed in which we get there, that should be left up to States, and communities, and local economies.

I look forward to working with you to strengthen our Nation's workforce, and create a more prosperous economy for all Americans.

The President's supporters in Congress are homegrown purveys of disinformation.

I am talking of course about the economic impact of inflation, an invisible tax that takes its toll on every American.

It is an abomination, it is unconstitutional, and frankly, it is embarrassing.

We have two million unauthorized migrants who crossed the border last year during the calendar year.

So Senator Murray and I have worked together on this committee for 7 years, and have increased the NIH funding by more than 50 percent after a decade with no real increase.

That is also a lie, which you know it is not a Trump campaign product.

You think it is important that the U.S. Government combat this disinformation, right?

We would love to see the President put his weight behind protecting this right to abortion. This is his presidency. This is his time, his moment. He should be coming out in support of abolishing the filibuster.