Michael Bennet

Cleaning up electricity generation is critical to meeting our climate goals, as we have discussed this morning.

The electric power sector is poised to reduce emissions roughly 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

I think the expansion of the EITC was a wonderful move. I think we could do more.

Ninety percent of children will benefit from the expanded CTC, but it will have disproportionately large effects on children of color.

The United States has one of the lowest rates of economic mobility and highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.

Do you think the tax code should provide a level playing field for small minority-owned businesses?

For those reasons, I wrote the America's Family Act, along with my colleague Senator Sherrod Brown, and have been pushing to expand the Child Tax Credit to make it fully refundable for many years.

It would work within the Medicare framework to establish a public option for individuals, families, and small businesses.

If confirmed, will you commit to a timely implementation of the ACE Kids Act and work with us on the Accelerating Kids Access to Care Act?

I think this was a major step to protect patients who are often taken advantage of in their most vulnerable state.

I hope the Biden administration will take us up on our offer to be helpful in fulfilling these commitments.

Thank you for your willingness to serve and for all the work you have done to pass and implement reforms such as the Affordable Care Act, which dramatically improved coverage and affordability for health care in this country.

Senator Grassley and I worked hard to pass the ACE Kids Act, which will be implemented in October of 2022.

There's a great deal of resilience in democratic systems.

The challenge, and I think President Biden has emphasized this, is working with other democracies.

The proliferation of surveillance technologies, for example, are one tool that authoritarians use to strengthen their grip

Democracy around the world has been in retreat for 15 years against authoritarianism.

I was disappointed to hear you say in March that families will need to file a 2020 tax return in order to receive their advance Child Tax Credit payments.

We fixed that flaw for this coming year, and I sincerely hope we are going to make that fix permanent going forward.

The American Rescue Plan today is a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit modeled after my American Family Act I built with Senator Brown, which would cut childhood poverty nearly in half.

One of the most important steps we took in the American Rescue Plan was to make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable.

I appreciate that answer as well, and I think that the work that you are doing on the Non-Filer portal is going to be enormously important to answering these questions in a way that gets the American people the help that they need.

I rise on behalf of Senator Cardin, who is a Democrat from the State of Maryland and an original cosponsor of this bill with Senator Wicker, to say what he would have said if he had been here today, which is that Alexei Navalny is a…

It is an interesting thing, because half of the kids are going to be lifted out of poverty, but 90 percent of America's kids are going to benefit from this.

For decades, corporations have used overseas tax havens to avoid their share of taxes, which has shifted an ever-larger share of the tax burden onto working-class and middle-class Americans.