I want to thank you because when I first heard Mr. Scalise start to talk about this issue, I thought, oh my God, we are going to have bipartisan support for childcare, and then he went into this political argument about math.

Well, thank you so very much. Is that Dr. ``FRAY-gah'' or ``FRAH-gah?''

we have $12 billion that we have put together. I worked with Mr. Warner to do that, and of that $12 billion, $1.25 billion has been given out already, and the rest will go through the Treasury Department.

we saw, when we responded to the pandemic, how the big banks who were handling the PPP program took care of their concierge clients and left our small businesses and our minority businesses basically hanging.

I think you know, and everybody knows by now that our committee has it as a high priority to see to it that we correct some of the wrongs and the discriminatory practices that have been employed by the banks.

The International Monetary Fund has long been criticized for its willingness to impose painful reforms on countries in crisis.

I asked Facebook to immediately pause its work until regulators and Congress had an opportunity to review the project.

I invited Mark Zuckerberg to testify at a hearing where we scrutinized their plans.

Do you think that Chairwoman Beatty and I should try and put together direct funding of some kind to develop more incubators?

I would like to know more about incubators. I believe that we need a lot of incubators.

It is so timely, it is so important, and I thank you for your leadership.

One of the things that I believe in is that we have to do more to help our small businesses know about CDFIs, MDIs, and the resources that we are allocating to them so that they can have access to these funds.

What I have discovered is we don't have enough-- many of our small businesses that are involved in pre-bid conferences to understand what the opportunities are for contracting.

I am absolutely upset, and I am unhappy about the lack of progress that some of our cities are making despite the fact that we are doing everything that we can to get the resources to them.

I want to hear what these obstacles are, because I am not pleased at all, and we have to move the homeless off the street, and I think we can all do a better job.

I am so worried, however, that this growing political movement by these anti-vaccine activists and pro-Trump Republicans, it's undermining their work.

This is a very, very needed hearing that you are doing today because there's so much information out there, a lot of it sometimes conflicting.

Well, thank you so very much.

And so we had to make sure that we retrieved them before they expire. And we just need to come up with some ways of helping countries like Haiti.

The committee's report makes it clear that these firms have much work to do in transparency, and accountability is the path to progress.

I am committed to ensuring highest returns for consumers and retirees, and we have heard today that diverse asset managers perform as well, if not better, than non-diverse asset managers.

I am so proud that your efforts have culminated in yet another groundbreaking report, this time on the diversity of our nation's largest investment firms.

Since Democrats have been in power, we have delivered for the American public.

As this pandemic continues, the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats remain hard at work to provide protections and essential relief to individuals, families, and small businesses across the country.

The fight for LGBTQ+ rights is far from over.