Chris Van Hollen

I want to underscore some of the issues that had been raised by my colleagues.

We were, of course, all alarmed by the images of the attacks on democracy in Brazil following Bolsonaro's exit.

Protecting environmental defenders is about much more than just the Amazon.

These human rights abuses and the migratory outflows that stem from citizens fleeing these countries demand our full attention in cooperation.

We must defend democracy when it is under attack around the world.

I really hope going forward... that people will not take our economy off a cliff by threatening not to pay our bills on time.

I applaud the President and the Biden administration for looking at the issue of how we tax work unfairly relative to wealth.

I applaud you and the President for going even further in this budget, in terms of saving costs for seniors on Medicare.

This budget will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next ten years.

The Inflation Reduction Act that we passed reduced the deficit by $200 billion.

If this one lock, which is the only large functioning lock we have went down, this would be devastating to our economy.

A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.

We certainly don't want to do what we again are hearing from House proposals, raise the age of Social Security to 70 or Medicare to 70.

Here's our choice: President Biden's pro-growth investments, which also reduce the deficit by nearly $3 trillion, versus spending cuts deep enough... to plunge the U.S. into a recession.

What they would be able to do is make nearly every family worse off and send our economy into a tailspin.

The new House Majority has said it will make permanent the Trump tax giveaways, over 40 percent of which go to the top five percent.

According to a letter Senator Wyden and I received yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office, the Republican promise to balance the budget in ten years... is, in a word, impossible.

For when you would put up temporary fencing, under emergency situations, which is certainly understandable and justifiable.

The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.

Speaker McCarthy authorized the release of more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the awful events of January 6.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank both of you for your leadership, and for the participation, and good work and service of all your teams, in making sure that our Capitol can be safe, and functioning well.

We are so grateful to Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Well, I appreciate that, and we introduced work together on the National Transit Workforce Act as well, and I was pleased to see the FTA stand up the training center.

Well, we are going to push them because the uneven implementation of this around the country is concerning, especially in light of the ongoing risks to transit workers.

I was really pleased that we were successful at including a lot of those provision in the Bipartisan Infrastructure modernization legislation.