Chris Van Hollen

I appreciate your flagging those issues as we work on the implementation of that program.

The American Jobs Plan proposed by President Biden allocates $100 billion to make sure we have 100 percent connectivity.

Fritz Mondale exemplified decency and strength and compassion in his six decades in public life.

This is a rule that has a nice-sounding name, like a lot of these, the true lender rule.

The pandemic has shone a harsh light on the digital divide.

I had introduced a bill to close what we called the 'homework gap.'

For years, the work of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has been far too much about Wall Street, far too little about housing, and almost nothing about people's everyday lives in urban and rural communities.

I also know that he reminded us that the tenets of the Fair Housing Act have never been fully enforced.

This is the first full Committee hearing dedicated to rural America, believe it or not, in nearly a decade.

The hopes and dreams of all Americans are pretty similar. We want jobs with dignity. We want to be valued for the work we do.

It's necessary to our future that we do.

You can no longer ignore the reality of climate change.

We will work to get that done, along with the other legislation on workforce training for transit workers.

We have seen that the American Society of Civil Engineers gives us a miserable grade of D-minus as a country in this area.

We urge the Committee to include the latest iteration of the bill in its entirety in any surface reauthorization legislation it considers.

President Biden's American Jobs Act calls for significant investment in transit.

I am really glad that the Committee is turning its attention to the issue of transit.

We cannot allow rideshare companies to get Federal funding when they lower essential safety, equity, and labor standards.

I urge you to support Senator Van Hollen's Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

The overwhelming majority of households actually have more money in their pocket at the end of the day if you do the 100 percent dividend than before.

I was really glad to see this is part of the President's plan.

I think history will look back on the covert operation run by the fossil fuel industry against its own country to debilitate and incapacitate our own Government from addressing this problem as one of history's vilest political acts.

If you can help us get this--increase the capitalization above even $100 billion, that would be great.

I have been working for years to establish what we used to call a 'green bank.'

Thank you for focusing on the huge economic opportunities and job opportunities of moving immediately and quickly into a clean energy economy.