the Senate has an obligation to conduct vigorous oversight and to be assertive in using our authorities

I want to thank you and your team for responding to the letter, the bipartisan letter that I sent with Senator Scott requesting reforms to FEMA disaster relief practices that were discriminatory against black Americans.

It is, on the one hand, a signal of progress, I think, that Georgia elected for the first time a Black man and a Jewish man to represent our State in the U.S. Senate.

I would argue that strengthening the Hate Crimes Statistics Act is the first and most compelling step to be taken.

We also need to think about how we connect with our communities, invest in our communities, so they feel safer without the need to overcriminalize.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening this hearing.

You should not have to take on a penny of debt to get a degree from a public college in this country.

Preventing the importation of goods produced with forced labor is a core priority for the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Government.

We need to move away from a system of financing higher education through debt.

We should be working to make access to job training and vocational skills free in this country.

A bipartisan promise made to America's teachers, to servicemembers, to others who take on public service, who pay their loans diligently for a decade.

Do you agree that a priority for the U.S. government and the U.S. Congress should be expanding our nation's capacity to train highly qualified cybersecurity workforce?

I am ready to work with you, Madam Chair, to take the action necessary to make that happen.

the impacts of climate change and these events will not be uniformly distributed. Low-income communities, vulnerable communities, communities in the floodplain, communities who already live in under-resourced neighborhoods, dilapidated…

it is vital, in my view, and I know I have discussed this with the Chairman as well, that this upcoming infrastructure bill includes significant investments in coastal resilience

the blatant racial targeting of this legislation makes so clear how vital it is that we restore the pre-clearance provisions under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

We Americans live in a great house that democracy built, and right now that house is on fire.

we as the United States Congress, under Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution, have the full authority to establish minimum standards for ballot access across this country to protect the right to vote

Congress must take action on voting rights, and we have no time to spare.

a partisan appointee can now take over local election boards

the right to vote can never be taken for granted, and that vigilance is seriously needed today.

we are restricting access via this partisan legislation in Georgia passed by the Republican state legislature to voting by mail

there was no evidence of widespread fraud, that it was a secure election conducted successfully.

these restrictions are not meant to solve any real problem observed in the administration of Georgia elections.

Voting is not just an issue alongside other issues.