Donna Shalala: “This must change. I am hopeful that this committee will consider in the coming months legislation to ensure a right to…”

Let me remind my distinguished colleague from Oklahoma that we sent the Heroes Act in May. And while I agree that the administration should get some credit for Operation Warp Speed, as I have pointed out, it has been decades of investment…

They threaten the continuity of Congress as a functioning representative of the American people, and our commission respectfully suggests that they need to be addressed.

Yes, absolutely there has to be a priority on them. The same in hospitals. The people that clean hospitals are as important as the first responders that we've all been talking about.

What we are interested in is protecting the balance of power, covering the losses with the least disruption as quickly as possible.