Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much. Thank you, Ranking Member Ernst.

We cannot risk undermining one of the successes of our current economy.

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

In the near term we are talking about a severe recession, and we are talking about loss of jobs?

I am just looking at the numbers.

We need to raise the debt ceiling. Without conditions.

please ensure that we have sufficient funds to continue this most important work.

Almost $0.70 on the dollar now goes to nursing home care from Medicaid.

Here is another. Tax the profits that giant multinational corporations hide overseas right now, helping level the playing field for domestic businesses and joining Europe and others in enacting a global corporate minimum tax.

Some of my colleagues have threatened the Nation's full faith and credit by holding the debt ceiling hostage for partisan politics.

So let me just say, thank you Ms. Weisenfreund for the work you do.

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.

The House Republicans have decided to use the debt ceiling to hold our Government and our economy hostage.

If Republicans get their way this is going to be about 2.6 million Americans who lose their jobs.

We could make the tax system a whole lot fairer as part of what we are doing here.

The Affordable Care Act has really been a success. 20 million more Americans have health insurance.

So when you take all that into account, that is the size of the cuts and the programs you would have to cut to achieve a reduction in spending of that size.

I just want to say our tax policies reward giant real estate investors who raise fees, jack up rents, and evict families.