The average cost of full-time child care is now $16,000 per year.

The cost of child care in America has gone up 2,000 percent in the last 40 years.

Across America, working parents are struggling to make sure their young children have decent, high-quality child care--at an affordable price.

I appreciate the efforts of the Committee to make PROMESA a more effective law that can better meet the needs of Puerto Rico.

If there was a possibility for some committee members to get on an airplane and fly over this garbage patch...

We have in the Northern Marianas, islands that are conservation islands--and unless you are a scientist with a permit, you can't get on these islands.

But, you see, these Micronesian Islands, yes, we probably contributed to some of this debris. But we are not responsible for that debris, and that thing is floating and growing.

I don't have an answer to the problem. I really don't. I do have a serious concern, because I eat a lot of fish.

Nobody owns us, Mr. Wittman. Nobody owns us.

I hope we get all of this. But I have some questions for Ms. Jaresko, if I may, please.

We are in a very unfortunate situation, in terms of Puerto Rico.