I rise today in support of the nomination of Patrice Kunesh to be the Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Kunesh is a descendant of the Standing Rock Lakota and a…

The challenge of funding and keeping a safe, affordable place to live is real in every part of the country.

Without safe, decent housing, nothing in your life works.

This is an incredibly alarming problem that we are facing.

That's an aggressive goal, but I'm glad they're aiming high.

Of course they are very interested in the conservation programs and are very interested in passing a bipartisan farm bill, which is so crucial.

We cannot react our way out of a disaster but we can sure plan our way around the next one.

Farmers and producers appreciate conservation programs. No one cares more about conservation than farmers.

Of course they are very interested in the conservation programs and are very interested in passing a bipartisan farm bill, which is so crucial.

I think it just reminds me of what an important responsibility we have through the work that we are doing to reauthorize this legislation, to not put clinics in the position of wasting time and energy and resources trying to plan for a…

I appreciate my colleagues' remarks today. You know, the issue that we are debating is whether or not retirement plans should be allowed to consider a company's environmental, social, and governance goals when they make investments. That…

I appreciate that. And I suspect that almost everybody on this Committee would agree that while we may--we certainly have, I think, a moral obligation to make sure that people can get the health care that they need.