Maggie Hassan

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 174,000 long-term care residents over the past year.

The failure to protect this vulnerable population during the pandemic is a national tragedy.

Our bill would expand the R&D tax credit for new and small businesses by doubling the cap on the startup credit.

I do not see any reason why we would want to go from what is seen as the world's standard today to the most regressive treatment of R&D going forward.

I introduced the bill that Senator Young talked about. It is a bipartisan bill with him and Senators Cortez Masto, Portman, and Sasse.

Together, these provisions will help secure U.S. supply chains, boost the economic recovery from COVID-19, and increase our competitiveness with China.

Because this has to be a joint effort, and it's critically important to the economic security of so many Americans, right?

I think it absolutely will be a priority for me and for the Department.

I believe we also have to work to protect retirement accounts from potential cyber security threats.

I do think this connects to Senator Kaine and Senator Murkowski, the points about that we have an opportunity now to look at the unemployment insurance system, how it works and how it doesn't.

I think there are many opportunities for better collaboration both on the administration of benefits and on the fight against fraud.

I strongly support these efforts.

I think envision the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) to help solve some of those problems.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member Portman. Thank you to both of our nominees this morning, and thank you and your families for your willingness to serve. We greatly appreciate it.

Cybersecurity has been on the High-Risk List for 24 years, and over the past 2 years, the leadership commitment in this area has declined.

As part of the year-end COVID-19 relief package, Senator Collins and I negotiated $10 billion in flexible funding for the United States Postal Service.

I look forward to working with the Biden-Harris administration and all of my congressional colleagues to ensure that we have the necessary leadership in place to coordinate Federal cybersecurity efforts.

I also want to congratulate the Government Accountability Office as it celebrates 100 years of service.

Will you work at USTR to ensure that small businesses are represented on this committee, and to ensure that the views of the committee are reflected in our efforts to support innovative U.S. businesses that are competing in the global…

We have to take on the Chinese Government and reinvest in American manufacturing in order to protect our national security, our public health, and our economic independence.

I spoke with President Biden about this issue yesterday when we were at the White House, and it includes the critical need to invest in domestic production of semiconductors, which I know other people have talked to you about.

I will just echo what Senator Sinema was just speaking about, in terms of making sure we are getting to our rural veterans in remote areas.

I am really excited to be a member of this Committee and I am really looking forward to the work that we can do together to serve our veterans.

It is one of our largest towns but it has 900 people total, and it is a beautiful spot but it takes 3 hours for people in wintry weather to get to Manchester.

I strongly oppose these unconstitutional out-of-State taxes, and I will continue working with the committee and my colleagues to build on a bipartisan proposal to provide strict limits on a State's authority to tax workers outside their…