We are grateful for Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

These human rights abuses and the migratory outflows that stem from citizens fleeing these countries demand our full attention in cooperation.

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

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

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

Speaker McCarthy authorized the release of more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the awful events of January 6.

I totally agree that we have to be more aggressive in providing incentives or alternatives on those who make their livelihood that impact on the Amazon.

A quarter of that was accumulated during just the four years of the Trump administration, and the debt ceiling was raised three times during that period.

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

I want to underscore some of the issues that had been raised by my colleagues and then I have a few questions.

We were, of course, all alarmed by the images of the attacks on democracy in Brazil following Bolsonaro's exit.

We have regular high-level engagement with our Brazilian partners.

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

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.

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

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

Unless there are alternatives available for dealing with the needs, China sometimes is the only player.