This Week's Quotes

Every Virginian deserves dependable access to clean, safe drinking water.

We urge Treasury to make sure these dollars are deployed quickly, transparently, and fairly in accordance with the intent of Congress.

We also remain deeply concerned by repeated efforts to weaken the CDFI Fund and its ability to do its job.

It should not take months of bipartisan pressure from Congress and advocates across the country to release funding at the eleventh hour that Congress already approved.

We welcome Treasury taking another step to get these long-delayed FY25 CDFI Fund dollars out the door before they expire at the end of the month.

Specialty and mail-order pharmacies provide critical medications to patients across Virginia, and they should be reimbursed fairly and accurately for the care they provide.

We need to make sure whatever safety board we put in place doesn’t ensconce the already largest frontier labs.

God forbid we have an incident; we’ve got to have an incident reporting mechanism. No more, no less.

I think the whole world has recognized we’ve got to do something.

We should not miss the moment to put a safety protocol in place now.

Film and television production supports good-paying jobs and small businesses across Virginia and across the country. This bill will help keep more productions — and the jobs they create — here at home, while giving Virginia’s talented…

The question is whether Washington is going to act before something goes seriously wrong — or wait until afterward to ask why we didn’t.

But leadership also means making sure these systems are safe, secure, and remain under human control.

I hope that I can encourage my colleagues to join me in passing the Data Center Tax Accountability and Disclosure Act.

Unless we put some consequences, I think we are going to completely miss the boat.

We need to make sure we’ve got accurate information about power usage, water usage, setbacks, backup power, get rid of non-disclosure agreements.

I think we need real legislation on this. We need legislation that actually has some boundaries. This should not be optional.

At the same time, I’ve authored a measure that’s in the Senate Farm Bill to tackle the issue of prairie dogs on federal lands.