Madam Speaker, I yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from Iowa (Mrs. Axne). But please, I urge my colleagues, our time is very short. We want everyone to be able to speak, so please try to keep your comments under 2 minutes. One minute…

Madam Speaker, I yield to the distinguished gentleman from the great State of Florida (Mr. Soto); and I would ask my colleagues to keep their comments to 2 minutes.

Mr. Speaker, the Moving Forward Act recognizes that childcare is infrastructure. Central to rebuilding our economy, stabilizing our workforce, and educating our children, childcare is a public good, supporting more than $99 billion a year…

Madam Speaker, almost 4 years ago today, I joined with my colleagues and my friend, Congressman John Lewis, in leading a sit-in on this very floor after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. We could not stand for another…

Mr. Speaker, we can't wish away this pandemic. We can't accept the false choice that we either reopen or lose to the virus. No. We must protect the American people and the institutions and values that define our Nation with action. The…

And when we talk about the dignity of work, we have to make sure that those workplaces, those salaries are really giving people a chance.

I don't think we make tradeoffs between public health emergencies.

Are we addressing in a realistic way systematic racism, systemic racism, and the toxic vestiges we have of slavery? Are we looking at voter suppression?

When we talk about the dignity of work, and I would ask you, Professor Edin, if you could repeat the statistics of how many people are working on TANF and others.

I think part of the problem with these work requirements is that it sets up a false paradigm that people are not working out of choice because they are getting a handout from the Government.

To pick up on that theme, I often think of the Boston Globe report that came out a few years ago on the median net worth of families in Boston.