Chris Van Hollen

We are asking you to take a look at that when you do that.

Making sure that folks who, especially very wealthy folks pay their taxes on time is important.

Where the money is in uncollected taxes is in very wealthy, wealthy folks who are not paying their taxes on time, right?

Whether you make spending cuts, whether you make revenue increases, people can have a healthy disagreement on that front.

The first act of the House under new leadership of Speaker McCarthy when they repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, according to CBO, that would increase the deficit relative to where we are today by $114 billion, right?

I really hope, Madam Secretary, that we won't do that.

If the Congress packed up its bags and left...the reality is 10 years from now, the deficit would be $3 trillion higher than if than it is today.

One quarter of the total accumulated national debt was incurred during the 4 years of the Trump Administration.

During the 4 years of the Trump Administration, Congress passed the debt ceiling increase three times without a lot of drama.

The President's budget, President Biden's budget reduces the deficit over the next 10 years by $3 trillion relative to if we did nothing.

Thank you, Madam Secretary.

I look forward to doing that and hopefully we can get it passed on a bipartisan basis and support accountability in the system.

American consumers are sort of looking at the situation here where those who were clearly responsible for the failure in their banks are running away with major profits.

I am somewhat concerned that perceptions and a sense that there is riskiness in the bank system because of these failures will lead some people potentially to go to the shadow banking system.

I know President Biden has called upon Congress to change the law so that we can hold executives accountable.

I give you and the Biden Administration, the FDIC, and others, high marks for the way you responded quickly and decisively to the Silicon Valley Bank default.

The United States of America pays its bills on time.

I think we need to do more than chipping away.

You can't do this on the cheap, and you can't do it with rhetoric and no resources.

In my view that represents a retreat around the world at a time that we need to be more engaged, not less engaged.

It is absolutely nuts to account an equity investment as a PEER Grant, nobody in the private sector would think that makes any sense.

This was another example of working to protect biodiversity, generally, but also to make sure we protect this very important species, that is a fairly close cousin of ours.

In order to make sure that we discourage poaching, and we discourage wildlife trafficking, we need to make sure that local populations have alternatives.

I appreciate that. And, you know, I hadn't fully realized, before that trip, that Indonesia was the only place on earth that is the home to orangutans on two of their islands.

That not all the--not all the, you know, monies from tourism were flowing to a few people, but that the benefits were more widely dispersed within the community.