I have a letter here, Mr. Chairman, which I would like to submit for the record from the Government Accountability Office.

I was disappointed to see that the President's budget cut the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by more than 65 percent.

I would argue that that doesn't seem to be our view with respect to fossil fuels like oil and gas and nuclear.

The Administration has rolled back protections for workers, for consumers, and for the environment.

Now there is no question that families across the country desperately need a raise.

The Trump Administration reversed an increase in the overtime threshold, costing 4 million workers a collective $1.2 billion in additional wages per year.

The Administration has given payday lenders a green light to engage in predatory lending practices that result in annual interest rates as high as 600 percent.

You are a small town with very little infrastructure.

I think we would all support the elimination of unnecessary red tape.

The kind of wrap-around support offered by CORC is critical for those in recovery.

it's really critical that we ensure that we are adequately prioritizing Federal funding for states that have been hardest hit by the opioid crisis.

we really need to make sure that we're doing everything we can to help the hardest hit states.

I want to thank you and the Ranking Member for your bipartisan work on this discussion draft of this bill.

I think this is an effort that requires everyone in democracies, in the international community, in the free world, to point out the threat that is posed to all of us.

Title VII protects the right of women to be free from discrimination based on their decisions about if and when to have a family and whether to continue a pregnancy.

If you are an individual with an individual case, who has to go seek out an attorney, arrange, perhaps, a contingency fee arrangement with that attorney, wait 300 days at a minimum to get your case heard, you are less likely to be able to…

You brought a landmark case fighting for the right of women to not be discriminated against in the workplace because they are pregnant.

I think that is critically important to the work of the EEOC.