Maggie Hassan

I am grateful to all of your families.

How will you ensure that the Office of Intelligence and Analysis has sufficient personnel and resources to assess and address all of the various terrorist threats to the homeland?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for that courtesy and to you and the Ranking Member for this hearing.

If we cannot modernize our legacy IT, it is a customer service issue, to be clear. It is a national security issue as well.

I really would look forward to working on this with you, because I think it is a really urgent issue for the American people.

That is why I partnered with Senator Lankford to introduce the Federal Agency Customer Experience Act, to gain better insight into customer interactions with the government in order to improve customer experience overall.

I have heard from many Granite Staters who are still waiting to receive their tax refunds from 2019 and 2020.

I want to express my appreciation to you and your staff for working with me on my bipartisan bill with Senator Braun.

I appreciate that, and I want to follow up a little bit on the issue of the Technology Modernization Fund.

If you are going to block a vote on critical legislation that affects the foundation of our democracy, the access to the ballot and the impartial administration of the election process, then you need to come to the floor of the United…

What is at stake is, of course, our democracy.

This is the fourth time this year that we have tried to have this debate.

The number of children with COVID-19 is surging in New Hampshire and across the country.

I'm grateful that the administration heeded my call to send FEMA teams to New Hampshire to help administer COVID-19 treatments, as this assistance was essential to keeping our health system functioning.

It is important that the public recognize that, because children are still growing and developing, it's critical that thorough and robust clinical trials of adequate size are undertaken.

Children under age five are still not eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

CDC recommends that all family members above the age of 5 years old be vaccinated to help protect younger children.

I want to follow-up, I am grateful that the Administration heeded my call to send FEMA teams to New Hampshire to help administer COVID-19 treatments.

We have long had problems with accurate State vaccination data in New Hampshire.

Testing, in particular, is a huge concern for parents who are starting 2022 exhausted from the last 2 years.

You can't just say our schools must stay open if you don't vote to provide additional resources schools need to do so.

People should be able to make plans for the future without fearing that everything they are looking forward to... will be upended by this virus.

Based on what we now know about this virus and the tools we have to fight it, schools should be able to stay open safely.

We are not going to get out of this crisis by treating each challenge as a political opportunity.

People back in my home State of Washington and across the country are frustrated and worried about the course of this pandemic.