I hope that you can provide this Committee with some approaches that we can take, funding or programmatic, to deal with the backlog and the other issues you just mentioned.

Julie Su is highly qualified and is a strong leader.

leadership does make a difference and it is important that we support the president in putting together the team he needs.

the Department's mission takes on outsized importance.

I do think that there are some commodities such as electricity that are so basic that I do not know if free market is the best system to deliver those necessary commodities.

Well, considering the massiveness of the failure in Texas, I think that they probably did not follow your recommendations very well.

to have literally hundreds of thousands of people without power for days on end is simply unacceptable?

At the end of the day, although the Republicans tried -- they spent many, many hours trying to weaken the bill and ultimately not a single one voted for it. At the end of the day, we Democrats knew that we were going to get a bill that was…

Mitch McConnell wants to be able to uh be the guy that stops all of them. And that is why he`s so intent on keeping filibuster intact.

Understanding that Mitch McConnell`s goal is to retake the senate which means that he is not going to be with us in pushing legislation that Joe Biden wants.

Oh, I had little doubt that we were going to get this done because all of the Democrats voted to use the reconciliation process.