If this one lock, which is the only large functioning lock we have went down, this would be devastating to our economy.

A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.

We certainly don't want to do what we again are hearing from House proposals, raise the age of Social Security to 70 or Medicare to 70.

I really hope going forward... that people will not take our economy off a cliff by threatening not to pay our bills on time.

Wall Street banks spent the ensuing years lobbying to roll back safeguards we passed in the wake of that crisis.

I applaud the President and the Biden administration for looking at the issue of how we tax work unfairly relative to wealth.

The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.

I applaud you and the President for going even further in this budget, in terms of saving costs for seniors on Medicare.

If this one lock, which is the only large functioning lock we have went down, this would be devastating to our economy.

Protecting environmental defenders is about much more than just the Amazon.

The new House Majority has said it will make permanent the Trump tax giveaways, over 40 percent of which go to the top five percent.

According to a letter Senator Wyden and I received yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office, the Republican promise to balance the budget in ten years... is, in a word, impossible.

I certainly hope he will do that in partnership with his allies, the United States and others.

I just want to make a mention of the Red Line in Baltimore. As we all know, this was a big priority of the Maryland delegation for a long time.

The guidance from the IRS is absolutely critical in regard to the allocation issue.

What they would be able to do is make nearly every family worse off and send our economy into a tailspin.

This budget will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next ten years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank both of you for your leadership, and for the participation, and good work and service of all your teams, in making sure that our Capitol can be safe, and functioning well.