Thank you, sir, for your 36 years of distinguished service to our nation and the past 3 years as head of Northern Command.

They took the risk for all the rest of our families, and they just don't get rewarded in the system.

This is putting homeownership further and further out of reach for my constituents, including new parents, parents, millennials, and people of color.

You are gambling with people's lives, and there is a pile of data showing the price gouging and supply chain kinks and the war in Ukraine are driving up prices.

I know that you believe, as I do, that the issues this committee tackles are at the very core of our national security as a nation.

Well, but it is, and it is in your report, and that would be about 2 million people who would lose their jobs, people who are working right now making their mortgages.

Year after year, the Republican playbook has been simple--more help for their rich buddies and more economic pain for everyone else.

So that's a pretty grim picture about what's going on, and it's particularly alarming because, in 2021, investors bought up one-quarter of all single-family homes that were on the market.

Workers' demands are big and bold, and they are necessary to rebalance the scales of our economy.

We need to raise the debt ceiling. Without conditions.

this loophole is expected to provide investors with $134 billion in tax breaks over the next 10 years.

for decades the country has underinvested in our housing supply, and the data I see suggests we're now facing a shortage of as many 7 million affordable homes.

Massachusetts has received 25,000 of these innovation grants, and it has helped us to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

It is unconscionable, and our most-vulnerable workers and families cannot afford to wait for you to realize the harm that you were doing.

who have a champion in Senator Murray with the Child Care for Working Families Act.

the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is not perfect, but it helps drive the development of affordable rental homes.

We need to write new rules that protect all workers black, brown, and white to ensure that we can all thrive.

I want you to imagine if your Federal funding is cut by 78 percent.