This Week's Quotes

Our goal is to deliver for Americans struggling to pay their utility bills.

To be clear: permitting negotiations are ongoing, many of the major hurdles have been overcome, and we believe there is a good deal to be had.

The wrap-up is simply that progress is being made.

I’m convinced there are no biologists, chemists, geologists, or anyone else who can match the enormous intellectual understanding of how all this works more than the landowners, the farmers, and the generations of people who have farmed…

Our Eviction Crisis Act will both prevent eviction and limit the harm when it is unavoidable.

The hardship caused by eviction is agonizing for the millions of American families facing it every year, and that harm reverberates across our communities.

Today, an illness, a car accident, or a family emergency can lead to a family being evicted from their home and falling into a cycle of poverty.

Many families are one unexpected expense away from losing the stability that comes with having a place to call home.

By introducing our National Farm Safety and Health Week resolution in his name, we can honor his memory, raise awareness about the dangers family farmers face and promote education to prevent future tragedies.

Ray Gaesser embodied the very best of Iowa agriculture—a hardworking farmer, a strong advocate for our producers, and a friend to so many across our state.

This damage and uncertainty will only hurt student populations that federal funding intended to support.

We know high-quality education has the ability to raise families out of poverty and meaningfully improve future earnings.

Schools and other grant recipients need a meaningful degree of certainty to properly plan their budgets and provide services to students.

This proposed rule is unnecessarily broad and vague, would undermine the stability of educational programs, and does nothing to improve educational outcomes for students.

It’s just plain wrong, and I’m proud that our commonsense proposal passed the House and is one step closer to giving victims the relief they deserve.

If you’ve been scammed out of your hard-earned savings or lost everything in a disaster, you shouldn’t then get stuck with a tax bill for money you don’t have.

On top of all of this, the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans undermining bipartisan budget agreements like this will only lead to more wasteful government shutdowns, when one side breaks the deal months later.

My Republican colleagues, who wrote and voted for this very law, need to stand up for the families and stop this President from illegally taking their money.