I am very proud we have passed legislation, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act to start focusing Federal dollars and investments in our tribal communities.

the largest risk our investing public is exposed to at this moment is the risk of a government shutdown.

I want to underscore this--lead to improved financial results for companies.

I will continue working earnestly with my colleagues to avoid a counterproductive MAGA Republican-inflicted government shutdown.

I appreciate that, and I am going to hold you to it. I look forward to continued conversations with all of you to make sure we are taking action and doing right here at the end of the day.

It is great. But if tribes cannot access it because they don't have that capacity to apply for these complex grants from multiple agencies, we are not going to get there.

this is not a matter of Black or White; it is a matter of green, so this is about improved outcomes.

the very first thing that they did, one of their very first actions was to dissolve the Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee of this Financial Services Committee

The correlation between investment in water infrastructure and health outcomes is well documented.

Nevadans should not be treated unfairly because of where they live. That needs to be factored into the final rule.

Wouldn't this kind of epitomize Build Back Better, so we don't build back just the way it was before the disaster?

I have been very vocal about supporting supplemental funding to the DRF and saying that it should pass the House without any social policy poison pills attached to it.

I am still trying to figure out how using renewable energy causes fires, wildfires, but I guess there is an explanation for it. Trees explode. I don't know.

It is of utmost importance that Congress fulfill the President's request for supplemental funding, and we should do that free of any poison pills that try to impose social policy into this area.

It has been called the greatest investment in environmental policy in a lifetime.

Natural disasters amplify existing disparities in our society, and it should go without saying that Government is here to address the needs of every American equally.

That is the only way that FEMA can continue to provide the necessary resources for ongoing recovery efforts like we are seeing in Maui and Florida.

It is of the utmost importance that Congress fulfill President Biden's supplemental funding request, free of any poison pills, so FEMA can continue providing the necessary resources for ongoing recovery efforts.