I was very excited to see that someone of your values and experience and competency would be nominated by President Biden.

I perceive a deliberate attempt by the majority to sanitize the airwaves of content that does not conform to their preferred political philosophies.

President Trump struck a huge blow to fair-housing protection with this disparate impact final rule which failed to comply with the Supreme Court's Inclusive Communities decision.

We need to restore these protections. They are getting watered down by conservative courts and decisions.

none of this discrimination that we are talking about today is explicitly spelled out in some sort of company handbook, but it is all implicit and cloaked in, like, proxies and codewords and misguided assumptions.

I couldn't agree more that we have to look at our financing around transportation.

Our companies are investing tens of billions of dollars on the future right now.

I have great confidence in both of your leaderships, and I am looking forward to really important work in a number of areas, particularly around surface transportation reauthorization.

How could you not get that vital intelligence on the eve of what’s going to be a major event?

One in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 say they have considered suicide in the past month because of the pandemic.

I can't imagine more difficult decisions than the ones that you have had to make, certainly in Michigan, to keep people safe and save lives, so thank you.

This is a very concerning development. It is getting worse. We have to treat it with the seriousness that it deserves.

I think this Committee has the opportunity to fundamentally change the future for our country and for our citizens.

What I fail to see is actual action, right.

I don't know. My residents at home want to be able to pay their rent, their water bill, their utilities.

China has invested $100 billion to get ahead of us.

Many of these communities, Mr. Chairman, were already in survival mode before this pandemic, and now are really, truly suffering.

Misinformation and deliberate disinformation have consequences, and we have lived through those consequences.