This is the investment we need that will defeat the virus, rescue the economy, and begin the work of building a better system for the future.

the American Rescue Plan will deliver on the hope that Americans voted for.

Does potentially a $9 trillion investment company pose some risk to the American economy if it should fail?

But it is not just banks that pose a risk to the economy.

I am grateful to you and President Biden for your leadership in enacting the American Rescue Plan.

So after the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to put more cops on the beat and prevent Wall Street from wrecking our economy again.

If you are not well off and able to pay out of your own pocket for everything you need to live at home, or if you do not have a family member who can drop everything to help, you are pretty much on your own here.

Health care including access to long-term care provided to people in their homes and communities should be a right, not a privilege.

by ignoring climate risk, the Fed and other banking agencies are allowing politics rather than science to determine the course of their action.

The evidence is undeniable that climate change threatens our economy.

It is their jobs, their savings, and their futures on the line. It is our job to be on their side.

it is within the Fed's responsibility to deal with climate risk.

voluntary self-regulation from big banks sufficient to protect our financial system from climate risks?

If we do not tell people the truth and take this seriously, we know who pays the price.

We can't let Wall Street write the rules and rely upon the disproven strategy of self-regulation.

We need to take seriously the threat that climate change presents to our financial system.

It is going to be the ranchers in North Dakota and South Dakota, the line cook in New Orleans, the kindergartner with asthma in Las Vegas, the steel worker in Cleveland, the clerk in New Hampshire.

HCBS services have been a matter of life and death during this pandemic.

Well, that is a really important point, that HCBS looks different depending on where you live, and the access is limited.

Seniors who choose to live in nursing homes deserve the highest quality care, and the administration must strengthen nursing home standards in the wake of this pandemic.

You will be helped by seeing student loan debt canceled.

Private equity facilities own approximately 11 percent of nursing homes nationwide.

Private equity ownership was also associated with 'declines in other measures of patient well-being, such as lower mobility.'

It's why we must raise the minimum wage to at least $15 and make sure workers have the ability to join a union to advocate for our own futures.

It is sad that we have been put in that situation all the time.