Maggie Hassan: “I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I…”

Child care costs are crushing working families across the country and making it harder for businesses to find and retain the workforce that they need.

Too often, victims of identity theft are forced to navigate a long, confusing process to get support from the Social Security Administration. This process is frustrating to victims and unnecessarily drains the agency’s resources.

I am pleased to see this bill signed into law and I will continue working with my colleagues of both parties to protect taxpayer dollars and increase government transparency.

The workforce shortage is a main driver in the gap between supply and demand and is key to making and quality child care more accessible and affordable so that parents can enter and stay in the workforce and our businesses can recruit the…