I have continued to push Congress to shore up these protections, including dismantling barriers like age discrimination.

I have continued to push Congress to shore up these protections, including dismantling barriers like age discrimination.

We must work to ensure that older adults are economically secure in retirement so that we can spend time--so they can spend time with their families and friends after decades of hard work and contributions to our economy.

We are trying to do everything we can to phase it out, to get rid of it. It is not good for our workers, not good for workers with disabilities.

We must work to ensure that older adults are economically secure in retirement so that we can spend time--so they can spend time with their families and friends after decades of hard work and contributions to our economy.

We are trying to do everything we can to phase it out, to get rid of it. It is not good for our workers, not good for workers with disabilities.

Senator, kids can't do their homework, which kind of crystallized it for me.

Senator, kids can't do their homework, which kind of crystallized it for me.

I come to the floor exhausted and fearful--fearful for women who watch every month as their rights are stripped away, fearful for my daughters-in-law, my granddaughters and yours as we deal with the fallout of the Supreme Court's Dobbs…

Isn't it true that 95 to 98 percent of the fraud in California was not from the regular, the regular unemployment program that you administered, but actually from the specially created pandemic unemployment assistance program created by…

I think it is pretty clear that there has been a lot of hot air and a lot of fiction flying around Washington about what happened in California.

I am going to support your nomination proudly. And you are not only prepared to do this job and well-qualified, I think you will serve with distinction as you have in the Department of Labor in your work already.

Isn't it true that 95 to 98 percent of the fraud in California was not from the regular, the regular unemployment program that you administered, but actually from the specially created pandemic unemployment assistance program created by…

I want to phase it out and to make sure that people with disabilities have a fair shot in the workplace.

If corporations were doing their job, we wouldn't need a Department of Labor, but you need one in the United States of America.

If corporations were doing their job, we wouldn't need a Department of Labor, but you need one in the United States of America.

Here is what we have. We had a special unemployment program set up for the pandemic, the worst crisis in 100 years. And a lot of things went well and a lot of things didn't go very well.

I want a Department of Labor that is fighting every day for workers, not as some have characterized it.