Chris Van Hollen

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

It is a dereliction of duty, in my view, that we are not moving these men and women through the process.

It makes no sense and undermines our interests every day that we do not have ambassadors on post at places around the world.

You cannot beat something with nothing.

We need all our players on the playing field.

Volvo is actually losing orders right now from people that want to, you know, purchase these electric medium and heavy duty trucks, but cannot because of this issue of charging stations.

When you have a huge, what economists call externality, which is climate change, I know some of my colleagues do not really believe in that as a threat.

I appreciate that. As you say, you want to work at both ends of the equation, the expense as well as the profit end.

You cannot beat something with nothing.

It is a dereliction of duty, in my view, that we are not moving these men and women through the process.

It makes no sense and undermines our interests every day that we do not have ambassadors on post at places around the world.

We need all our players on the playing field.

It makes no sense to add even more to our deficits to disproportionately benefit those at the very top.

Claims going forward that continuing the Trump tax cuts would pay for themselves, as you said is absurd.

The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.

We can invest in our security, and in our working families, and our communities, not just to throw money away at billionaires.

There's no reason that investors on Wall Street should pay less in taxes than a firefighter in Spokane, Washington.

Make America Great Again (MAGA) Republicans live in a fantasy world of a balanced budget, with extended Trump tax cuts, and funded Social Security, Medicare, defense and veteran's programs. Can't happen.

If we all agree that we're not cutting Social Security and Medicare, and we all agree that their trust funds become cash insolvent in approximately 10 years, there's only one solution left. Raise new revenues to fund Social Security and…

It makes no sense to add even more to our deficits to disproportionately benefit those at the very top.

So, it was a $20 billion cut, so your estimate is that what, it will lose $40 billion?

The claims that, you know, big tax, personal tax cuts for wealthy people is going to generate something like in the range of 4.6 percent. I mean that was just ridiculous, right?

Claims going forward that continuing the Trump tax cuts would pay for themselves, as you said is absurd.

I see that, you know, a number of months ago you had projected that the Trump tax cuts would add--well, this is back during that time, $4.6 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

There's no reason that investors on Wall Street should pay less in taxes than a firefighter in Spokane, Washington.