"Thank you, Chair Murray. I appreciate Secretary Becerra being here today to discuss the Administration's fiscal year 2023 budget request."
"I was pleased in the budget that you have shown--asked for a substantial increase in the certified community behavioral health clinics."
"What are you planning to do with that $2.2 billion?"
"I'm alarmed by the potential of widespread loan forgiveness currently under discussion by the administration. It's an illegal, regressive, unfair, and expensive proposal that does nothing to address t..."
"I think it is really important that people certainly, in high school, begin to get a sense of what jobs are out there."
"I had serious concerns that our country would not return to our pre-pandemic unemployment levels, which had been the lowest since the late 1960s."
"I am for that."
"It's wrong for the Federal Government to dictate what that workforce should look like, and for bureaucrats in Washington, DC to determine the speed at which we get there."
"Last year, when you testified before this Subcommittee, I spoke a great deal about how the COVID-19 pandemic put an unprecedented strain on our economy and its workforce."
"I want to say to that, Secretary, there is a reason that we had the veterans set aside in some of these areas."
"Thank you, Chair."