Cybersecurity is an increasingly critical issue.

Commercial vessels (both passenger and non-passenger) find the CDC guidance on mask mandates for indoor and outdoor areas to be very inconsistent and confusing.

I hope people will be prosecuted for the violence that we've seen on videos.

The sooner we get as many people as possible vaccinated, the sooner we can get there and that's one of the reasons we're continuing to push on that.

Virtually every major source of business and revenue for bus companies... has been severely restricted or eliminated over the past 14 months.

And that really underscores the hard work that all of the partners, and stakeholders who came together, put into the plan.

If NextGEN worked as intended, we should see all of those trends going in the other direction.

That in the land of the free, there should always be a home for the brave.

It cannot just focus on large urban areas.

I am very pleased to join Chairman Schatz in welcoming Secretary Fudge to her very first hearing before this subcommittee.

Knowing how many service coordinators HUD has seems to me to be pretty fundamental information that the Department should have.

Senator Jack Reed and I authored this legislation and we were successful in getting it included in the December package.

I am concerned that there are still two open GAO recommendations to HUD related to service coordinators.

As part of the fiscal year 2021 Omnibus, we provided $60.4 billion for HUD, and that includes $695 million in emergency spending.

These funds provide rental assistance for seniors and low-income families.

HUD needs to be more focused on smaller cities and communities.

Madam Secretary, you have said many times set HUD is understaffed. And I agree with you on that.

I agreed that you need to improve your internal cybersecurity, but I hope that you will also look at ways to educate consumers about the danger of real estate wire fraud.

I want to make sure that rural states like Maine remain competitive and get a fair shake in RAISE going forward.

I can go sit at a bar and drink for hours at a crowded bar now without wearing a mask and yet I can't take a short flight from Bangor to Washington without wearing my mask.

As we begin our work on the budget for the next fiscal year, it is important to know that unlike previous years, there is not yet a budget agreement in place.

I want to bring to your attention a HUD success story.

In my opinion, that is a tragedy, and the Maine Attorney General has noted that this is at least in part due to alterations in the illicit drug supply.

Any taxpayers should be guaranteed that their privacy will be protected when they provide information and file their returns with the IRS.

I was trying to get your personal opinion on whether this effort, which you are not a part of, is contributing to the recruitment and the retention problems that are being experienced all over the country.