John Sarbanes

I am particularly interested today in the focus on communities and in particular how the CLEAN Future Act can take action to protect and uplift communities across the country and in my State of Maryland.

There is no passion greater than fighting for your constituents.

If you get fair elections in place but, when the Representatives get to Washington they get taken hostage by the special interests and still get influenced by the big money, then you haven't solved our problem as the American people who…

We have got our work cut out for us, Madam Chair.

We know that school-based health centers provide high-quality, comprehensive primary healthcare, mental health services, preventive care, social services, and youth development.

It allows continued access to medical care for patients while protecting the health of both the patients and the medical staff that are serving them.

During the pandemic, 75 percent of the Federal workforce has been in a telework status.

Telework can help us there. It's something that's here to stay.

The Trump administration has really waged an assault on telework.

I want to thank you for this hearing today, emphasizing, I think, in many respects how different the Biden administration approach is going to be from the last administration in important ways.

Thanks very much. You know, when we look at environmental justice in the context of climate action...

I want to thank our witnesses today. This has been an exhaustive and long session, but I think you covered really important dimensions of the crisis that we are facing, particularly this vaccine distribution challenge.

This beautiful Capitol dome is a symbol of freedom and democracy, not just for Americans but for people the world over. The action we take today, this impeachment, is a declaration to the world that when there is an attack on our…

We've heard plenty of testimony today about the timeline here that in 2007, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to illegally misbranding OxyContin in this effort to mislead doctors and patients about the drug's risk of addiction.

The reality is that it is the career work force that is the engine room of our government.

He was a workhorse, not a show horse. He put his head down. He just wanted to help people.

The accuracy and transparency and integrity of this process be protected

The Census is about giving every person in this country the opportunity to stand up and to be counted

We want very much for there to be more transparency.

The Nation deserves publicly available indicators to assess the credibility of the final counts.

Those average Americans out there who play by the rules... they're the ones that are getting short shrift here.

The IRS is enforcing the laws, we're going to be at risk of losing people continuing to voluntarily comply.

When the IRS doesn't have enough resources, the fact of the matter is that the rich get richer, high-end tax cheats get away with not paying their taxes.

So, we have to get more resources to the IRS, and that has to be a number-one priority for Congress.

The IRS is funded in a way that it can do its job and do its job on behalf of that broad set of Americans.