"I want to thank you for your responses and your knowledge and the work you have done on this budget."
"This is a topic that I have a great personal interest in."
"The 800 million dollars is absolutely essential to supporting our needs to recover from the pandemic."
"Unfortunately, there's been so much politicization of this issue about schools staying open or not open."
"so much of the last 14 months we've seen just the worst kind of politicization of a national emergency."
"special needs teachers in this country, certainly in my district in Kentucky, and I'm sure everywhere are some of the greatest heroes that I've ever been exposed to."
"It is bizarre to me that for that length of a period of time that republicans continue to raise issues that have no empirical support."
"When really they have no basis for saying that. It's all speculation."
"I think that's probably the reason that some businesses can't find employees is because they're not paying enough money."
"We will respect that process as we respected it in prior occasions."
"I think a better solution would be to empower this very Committee to fulfill its responsibility in the government funding process."
"My view has always--I was stunned by that. My view has always been that the constitutional argument ran in the other direction, that there was something very questionable about this kind of arbitrary ..."