We need immediacy here. This is the way we make sure that we never have a food shortage.

That is the way we protect the consumers. We arm them with education with the literacy program.

we have many Members on both sides of the aisle who are vitally concerned and would like to see us move in a direction to allocate some of this money for financial education.

But you are agreeing to work with me on this, going forward?

we in Congress ensured that in statute, money from this fund could be used for payments for financial literacy and financial education programs.

Housing is infrastructure.

I find it amazing that housing, one of the biggest issues in our country, that the Republicans say there is nothing here.

this is a very important issue. And what you are saying, and your testimony is exactly why we must ensure that down payment assistance remains a key component of our Build Back Better Act that our President is pushing.

The inflation is transitory. It is coming down, and I think that is important.

Trump gave us the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover, literally the worst jobs record in modern history.

The associations that make up the Agricultural Transportation Working Group submit this statement in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation's request for information.

I am so excited that one of the first things that you have done at the SEC is to establish climate change as one of your top priorities.

We have to get tough so that we can protect--our financial system is the heart and soul.

I have asked my staff to begin putting together a bill so that we can have strong enforcement powers, put fines in, put jail sentences in, make it tough, so we will not allow these social media platforms to abuse the basic foundation of…

Congratulations. As both you and I are graduates of the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where we received our Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees, we all are very proud of you.

I am concerned about how technology and artificial intelligence is reshaping our banking system.

I am concerned that this new technology, the use of artificial intelligence, and this inherent bias seem to be contributing factors in rejecting Black home loan approvals.

This huge and dramatic 30-point gap is a major contributor to racial economic disparities.

I also helped secure $60 million in this year's budget for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.

And that is why I introduced H.R. 3442, the National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021, an increase in Federal investment in prescribed burns as a preseason wildfire mitigation strategy.

Let us make them very proud that this House Agriculture Committee is securing our role being at the top of the point of the spear when it comes to dealing with our Federal policy, Congressional policy.

We are the leaders in Congress that must deal with climate change, and the way that we are functioning on that is through what is referred to as carbon credits, carbon markets.

This is about climate change, the most pressing issue that is facing us today, and nobody is more impacted than us, agriculture.

The Democrats' bill will not fix the Biden Administration's abject failure.

This isn't difficult. To get the program back on track, it simply requires that our solutions be targeted, timely, and tied to COVID.