Thank you very much for being here, Director.

We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession.

I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts.

Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.

If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that.

There's only one person in that room who was threatening to default on the credit of the United States.

So the oceans are taking a beating far in excess of the actual heat value of fossil fuel, or result of fossil fuel emissions.

This is not a witch hunt. This is not a smear. This is not a harassment. This is to try to rescue the reputation of the Court from some very sordid facts that have been disclosed and proven.

I think that Congress should fully fund the FCC's Rip and Replace Program.

Just a few weeks ago we heard from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin about the horrors being carried out in his country by Russian forces.

Competing with China requires everyone on the field operating as a whole-of-Government, and working in a bipartisan way with Congress.

Our ability to counter China requires us to show up; it requires us to show up in embassies; and it requires us to show up on the ground with money.

I would argue that that speaks to the need for a Federal approach when it comes to gun safety legislation and not just a patchwork approach as we have had since the expiration of the assault weapons ban.

This emphasis on community policing, which you are right, Boston has been doing for decades, is a lesson well-learned.

We must continue to fight for common-sense gun safety laws so that neighborhoods are safe from gun violence and police officers are never outgunned.

To our law enforcement witnesses, thank you for your selfless service.

States like mine that have passed common-sense gun safety laws like background checks, red-flag laws, and ghost gun and high-capacity magazine bans generally see lower levels of gun violence and officers killed on duty than States with…