It is so critically important that we get these counts right.

Members of these communities, our first Americans, deserve to be counted as Americans.

I rise today to talk about paid family leave. I want to introduce this topic by saying that politicians across America, whether they are local, whether they are in State offices, or whether they are in very important bodies like the U.S…

But let us not pretend that we are going to get a broad reauthorization oversight capacity here with this kind of mixed jurisdiction.

If there are specific legislative requests that you have for that, we need to know, and so we can help work through that process.

Let us quit pretending that 15 years of dispersed jurisdiction here is acceptable and we have to wait longer.

if we cannot see an IG report and all the attachments, we are not doing oversight, right?

You need to get this house in order----

If we are going to do the right kind of oversight, we cannot have this kind of disparate jurisdictional challenges.

there is a boatload of money that is coming your way, and if we cannot trust that you are spending it right, if we cannot trust that the decisions are being made based on evidence-related factors and by professionals, this is not going to…

And if that money is just going to be poofed and we look back on this time and say in our rush to get this done, we did not do the right oversight, then shame on us.

I think it is critically important that we make the public understand that we simply went in the bill from designating automatically to basically allowing the regulators to designate some entity as a SIFI.