It is incumbent, I believe for us, to act as a congress, and certainly this Committee has an essential role to doing that.

Well today, myself and Senator Peter Welch in the Senate, are introducing the Interest Elimination, Student Loan Interest Elimination Act.

I have been on it for a while, and I was around in 2007 when the College Cost Reduction Act, a bipartisan bill that was signed into law by President Bush was signed, that cut the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over a 5-year…

Almost exactly a year ago, on August 10, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Honoring our PACT Act, which has been correctly described as the largest healthcare and benefits expansion in the history of the Department of Veterans…

Our Republican colleagues may be quick to attack the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, but the most dangerous proposals for our economy are the ones coming from extreme MAGA Republicans who want to turn back the clock and…

This historic economic growth is no accident. It is the result of congressional Democrats' and President Biden's smart policy choices to support both workers and businesses.

My Democratic colleagues and I strongly oppose this cut to the Wage and Hour's Division's budget, and anyone who is legitimately concerned about Wage and Hour's ability to conduct their vital mission should be as well.

My Democratic colleagues and I believe that we do not have to choose between a robust economy and one that affords workers basic dignity and respect.

It is time to face the facts. Without strong safeguards in place, workers will continue to be vulnerable to misclassification, to wage theft, and other violations of their rights that wind up costing working families and all taxpayers…

I will begin by injecting some facts into this discussion. We debated this measure in the Armed Services Committee. The amendment was adopted to extend the feasibility study from the U.S. Center of Excellence at Walter Reed Hospital, which…

I claim the time in opposition to this amendment. The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Spartz). The gentleman from Connecticut is recognized for 5 minutes.

Again, really quickly, I would just note that this builds on an amendment which was adopted in last year's NDAA to establish a partnership between the DOD and Ukraine. Again, that is still sort of working its way through the system. Again…

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Connecticut has 30 seconds remaining.

Looking at this amendment, if you just boil it down, what it is doing is degrading the scope of coverage for military servicemembers covered by TRICARE for themselves and their dependents. What we are doing is we are basically saying if…

If the Biden administration will do nothing about it, we have a Republican party in Congress, I promise we will.

Profit over patriotism, profit over love of country, and profit over love of freedom.

The manipulation of our children on America soil, paid for by American taxpayer is unacceptable.

When you are dealing with an issue of that magnitude, skills-based hiring just by sheer volume, is driving change in terms of how people are approaching.

Another example of earn while you learn is apprenticeships, which goes back to the 1930's, the Fitzgerald Act.

Again, that is why we have to really focus on sort of just basic, you know, realities for people in terms of trying to make that change.

Trying to sort of solve this problem for both employers, but also for perspective workers is all about trying to change the metrics in terms of how a person connects to a job opportunity.

the labor market continues to outperform all the predictions of economic experts on both the right and the left.

4 months ago, the news came from Plains, Georgia, that former President Jimmy Carter, along with his family, had made the decision to enter hospice care as he approaches the end of his amazing 90-year-old life. Interestingly, in the wake…

for all the talk that our friends on the other side, in the majority, about you know, the problem of inflation, which is real, for the American people over the last five and a half months, in the majority they have actually contributed…

inflation dropped to 4 percent. That is the lowest number in 2 years, 11 straight months.