Chris Van Hollen

Everyone was optimistic and positive about the current path but also recognized that this is a difficult path.

We shouldn't--you know, the Palestinian people shouldn't have to suffer needlessly

I hope we will return to our prior levels of commitment to UNRA.

We really want to take advantage of the political will that is there, also strengthen civil society and its ability to be able to continue to hold these institutions accountable as we build capacity.

There was some level of frustration in Khartoum about the fact that that money had not been clearly committed or identified.

I do not think we can afford to have the United States fall too far behind on this measure, especially given China's moving ahead with their own pilot program.

Well, Senator Schatz and I and some others are moving to introduce the Climate Change Financial Risk Act.

If you are a State and you want your dollars to travel faster, the Federal Government is now incentivizing highways over transit.

The Obama administration put in place the Federal Risk Management Standard. The GAO has said that that is a good way to save taxpayer dollars. The Trump administration tanked it.

I applaud the inclusion of the $20 billion in the American Jobs Plan to help reconnect communities that had been split by prior Federal infrastructure investments.

I am pleased to see the American Jobs Plan include major provisions to increase the overall supply of housing and affordable housing.

We should do it in a way that is built to last, and if it is in a Federal floodplain or other area that will be impacted by climate change, we need to build with resilience.

Nobody should be denied access to housing because they are relying on an affordable housing voucher.

It is time to invest in creating communities that will meet the needs of this country in this century.

The Administration recognizes the importance of ensuring that investments in housing and transit work together.

The American Jobs Plan is a bold effort to reverse decades of neglect, to rebuild, to put in place the foundation for a 21st century economy.

The Brent Spence Bridge... carries approximately 3 percent of our Nation's GDP, but that bridge is dangerously outdated.

DR is--CDBG-DR more specifically, is really a unique instrument that... makes available flexible funding that communities can use to build or rebuild many public improvements and affordable housing.

I think our goal here is to make sure we have a program, like this one, I think, that is more attuned to different kinds of metrics and triggers than just the emergency disaster declarations.

This focus is--it is unique, it is very different from other Federal disaster assistance programs that are administered by FEMA and the SBA.

Audit rates fell, especially sharply for higher-income individuals making more than $1 million a year.

So, if one of my constituents today wanted to contact an IRS agent online, like through email, is that something--how would they do it?

We need to invest in service, and we need to invest in enforcement, and technology actually helps both improve.

Well, that makes sense.

These folks need their money. They need it quickly, and we take that to heart.