"So, the idea that Democrats are OK with schools being closed is just a false choice."
"I was pushing for schools to reopen safely and for us to make sure that funding levels would not be cut so that social workers and support service personnel, and all of those people that are necessary..."
"I vote for the babies who left for school eight years ago and never returned home and the teachers who died trying to protect them."
"I think it`s a more dangerous precedent to let members` violent rhetoric and their hateful words go unchecked."
"COVID-19 has decimated our economy, and further destabilized Americans' steady access to nutritious meals."
"The Farmers to Families Food Box Program was billed as a solution to this pressing issue."
"I just hope that in the next phase, or even moving forward, that, now that we have seen it, and we have experienced it, that we can work hard to mitigate the problem and ensure it doesn't happen again..."
"We have kids who are not in school--not that I think it probably is that bad because you don't allow us to put nutritious food into schools--but we want less government."
"It ought to be interesting to me that Dr. Foxx and Mr. Walberg--I wonder if they are watching all the people marching in the streets today."
"You know, it would be nice if sometimes they would listen to what Black people actually think and not know what is best for us all of the time."
"I can assure you, everyone on this committee, when my husband was diagnosed with COVID-19... I thought about my husband getting healthy."
"I remind you that it is just geography, and we can still continue this work."