What you are saying is that 800, 900, a thousand companies have chosen to make a representation based upon climate or other factors, that you have not required that?

I would hope that every member of this committee would read Governor Cox of Utah's veto message on the issue.

As someone who has long advocated for greater Federal investment in skills training and workforce development as part of my Make It in America agenda, I am eager to hear her perspective.

It is very important I think to have the psychology of counselors, of educators, to understand there are some kids who want to be maybe computer people that after 2 years of a junior school or 2 years of a technical school, if you are a…

I thought your answers were honest, knowledgeable, and respectful of those who asked the questions.

It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.

We need to make sure that when we spend the taxpayers' money--and I am one of those who believes we need to invest, as you know--we need to make sure that that tax money is spent effectively.

If you invest in your children, if you invest in people's health, mental health, and education status, that you will have lesser costs.

And that bill to which you referred also made a substantial contribution to local police departments, funding local police departments so they could maintain safety, which we have seen so dramatically, unfortunately and tragically, over…

I will yield 3 minutes to the chair--to the ranking member, if that is possible?

So that effectively the costs--the consequential cost of that, 2 million people, very, very substantial number, in my view probably in excess of the savings that would purportedly be made.

We passed a very significant piece of legislation, the infrastructure bill, which includes $65,000,000,000 for rural broadband.

I think we have to be very careful. I share Ms. DeLauro's feeling that if we all paid our fair share, and we spent money wisely not only on the nondefense discretionary side, but on the defense discretionary.

It has given you an opportunity to see how we make choices in a democracy, and it is tough.

Not only here, but throughout the healthcare delivery system, what the pandemic showed us, what a critical shortage we have in almost every discipline in terms of healthcare.

The pandemic was horrible, but it gave us an opportunity to reimagine, and this is one of those areas.

The payline for extramural grants approval is now in the middle teens, as I understand.

I think in this country we have a 4-year or bust mentality, and it is hurting us.

I was a sponsor, as you know, of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This is what is called in the act a 'reasonable accommodation.'

A former Governor of my State--famous or infamous, depending upon your perspective--Spiro T. Agnew, once said that the cost of failure far exceeds the price of progress.

When the cost of failure far exceeds the price of progress.

This is a wonderful, wonderful device to make sure that we include everybody in the opportunities that America and the world has to offer.

Education is an investment in skill development.

The cost of failure far exceeds the price of progress.

Almost every Member that we come in contact wants to do the right thing.