The choice of doing nothing was not an acceptable choice given the circumstances.

The title of today's hearing suggests the American Rescue Plan focused on helping working families, not people at the top.

These tax cuts made a huge difference helping her afford school supplies, school uniforms, shoes, socks, coats, the basics, for her two daughters.

A million Michigan families with children got a monthly tax cut.

we've got to have far more transparency, and there really has to be--this has to be taken into account.

this egregious decision that I reference is one of the reasons why I introduced the Union Autoworkers Job Protection Act.

This cannot be a process where workers are an afterthought, where we just leave it up to the--you know, the decisions made in corporate board rooms.

the Federal Government use all levers of power to ensure that taxpayer money to support this industry is used in support of creating and maintaining good union jobs.

I was happy that we were able to work together to form the Low Income Housing Household Water Assistance Program, secured a billion dollars for that effort.

the fact that we are in now a position to see this action taken I think is in many ways a testament to his long work in this subject.

the problem that we have though is that in many of the communities like my hometown, water is really expensive.