"We did not commit child abuse. That is an absurd statement. Forgive me, Speaker Gingrich."
"We were trying to get money to businesses, we were trying to get money to state and local governments."
"We need to be much better at that."
"We would need to hire 400 new teachers and build two new schools."
"That is not our party."
"Thanks to the Rescue Plan, unemployment is near historic lows at 3.6 percent."
"The child poverty rate dropped nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2021."
"Experts across the ideological spectrum agree that the main drivers of current inflation are international supply chain issues and energy price hikes caused by Russia's war in Ukraine."
"You misspoke. You said tax rates instead of interest rates."
"I think that the American Rescue Plan did a lot to push against the spike in hardship that we would have seen that would have disproportionately fallen on communities of color that have for centuries ..."
"But temporary measures can't solve permanent problems."
"So, we need to invest in our kids because when we invest in our kids, when kids have more economic stability, when they go to good quality schools, when they have adequate nutrition, when those things..."