Chris Van Hollen

Those smaller businesses really do depend on it.

I look forward to having you back for another hearing on the idea of making sure that we can better empower neighborhoods right now that are struggling.

I think that the scale and the configuration of your proposal are both extremely exciting.

I have long worked to try to increase the resources as well as the reforms and other changes to better empower those neighborhoods.

Clearly, we have too many homeless families, although family homelessness has been going down slightly, which is good, compared to other populations.

I hope we will move in this direction, which will allow our Nation and its citizens to thrive.

I would argue a big part of President Biden's plans, both in terms of the American Jobs plan but also the American Families plan, would provide many additional supports and help to families to be more successful in those areas.

We have legislation to expand affordable housing opportunities: The Family Stability and Opportunity Voucher Act.

Senators Van Hollen and Young's bipartisan Family Stability and Opportunity Voucher Act supplies housing vouchers for 500,000 families with services to help them locate in high opportunity communities.

It seems to me that we should seize that opportunity.

I did want to use this as an opportunity, Ms. Roman, to talk about the bipartisan legislation that I have introduced with Senator Todd Young.

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We have heard from CDFI loan funds that they would also benefit from the longer term capital infusions.

The IRS at this point has the fewest auditors since the Second World War.

The other thing I wanted to mention is the BRINK Act. This is also legislation that Senator Toomey and I, and others pushed for, did apply secondary--secondary sanctions on North Korea.

We think that the only way to solve this problem is to try to get an agreement among almost all countries and certainly among the G20 countries that we will stop doing this.

Thank you for your testimony. Most of all, thank you for what you are doing to help empower communities, and bring more opportunity to more people in small businesses.

Wow. That is a great example. And part of the success, I think, of this program. Thank you, thank you very much.

Of course, the corporations here in the United States benefit from an educated workforce, a well-trained workforce, and that does require investments.

One of the key planks, the central planks of the American Jobs Plan is to ensure that big multinational corporations pay their fair share of taxes

It was welcome news, Madam Secretary, to see that this year's budget request proposes an increase in funding for the CDFI Program, and not the elimination of the program that we saw in budgets from the previous administration.

I believe the capital that we have seen, which is a historic investment, and really appreciate that the Congress did this.

I was pleased to see the Biden administration sanction a number of officials who have been complicit in undermining democracy and human rights in Hong Kong.

The IRS lacks the resources to effectively and fully enforce tax payment.