"Every challenge to a book or conversation in a classroom drains valuable resources from schools that are already stretched thin."
"In February, I co-led a letter to Secretary Buttigieg urging the Department of Transportation to require all highway traffic safety seats to utilize up-to-date male and female crash test dummy technol..."
"I have a special interest in this hearing, because in October, the 7000 series Metro car on the Blue Line derailed."
"But I do think it is time to build on the progress Democrats secured with the ACA by enacting policies that move us toward universal coverage."
"This is a very useful hearing. We are learning what the Affordable Health Care Act has achieved so that we can evaluate what more needs to be done to improve it until we get universal health care."
"I want to thank all of the witnesses and to especially acknowledge Kylie Burke who attends Howard University here in my district, the District of Columbia."
"The CARES Act was one of the starkest examples in recent years of why Congress should grant statehood for the District of Columbia."
"Republicans did so even though the District residents not only pay the same Federal taxes, but the highest per capita in the United States, more than 27 states."
"We are grateful that the recovery funds in the American Rescue Plan retroactively provided that $755 million to the District and treated D.C. as a state, county, and city."
"Co-Sponsors of the Justice in Power Plant Permitting Act"
"WMATA is of major importance to this region and, we believe, to our country."