"We have a unique opportunity to take action."
"Let's feed people before they have to stand in line and have the stress of food insecurity."
"Every single person living in this country deserves to wake up each day without having to worry about where their next meal will come from."
"I remind you of the irony in the fact that those unions are made up of teachers, the same people that you're saying your children need to go back to because they are the life blood."
"It is incredibly exhausting on this Committee when hearing after hearing we're having conversations as if we don't all recognize the importance of getting kids back to school."
"We want every school to open. We want kids to grow and thrive and learn in those environments, but enough of this, Democrats don't want kids to go to school. That is just not true."
"democrats do care, which is why we voted for 122 billion dollars in education funding with 3 billion of that carved out specifically for special education"
"I also cannot move on without just once again as I say in so many hearings that we hear over and over disparaging comments about teachers unions."
"I have introduced legislation to both diversify the education profession, and to save education jobs."
"not one single republican, Mr. Bush, voted for the plan to help your children go back to school."
"As Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, I recognize that the challenges to meet the many needs facing this country are great."
"The state of Connecticut and my district in particular are clear examples of the critical need for immediate investment in forward-looking, climate change mitigating infrastructure."