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

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

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

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.

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

Brazil is certainly a very important strategic partner for the United States.

We provided $3 million in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus for you to conduct a low income water assistance needs assessment.

I would appreciate it if you would keep me informed.

Technical assistance would be critically important. But also making sure the resources get to those communities.

I appreciate the engagement you have had with our office. These are exciting times.

We consistently get grades that are unacceptable.

One of the major parts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law... was to direct your efforts to traditionally underserved communities.

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

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

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

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

I would point out that the Inflation Reduction Act that we passed reduced the deficit by $200 billion.

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