Andy Kim

I have a legislation I am trying to put forward called the Put Our Neighbors to Work Act.

I urge support for my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am glad that we are able to have this debate and talk about what it is that we are trying to prioritize here. When we are talking about the workers here, this bill, this amendment, is not something that would force the Secretary of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle A of title XXVIII, add the following new section: SEC. 28__. IMPROVED…

the information that will be provided to Congress under H.R. 4531 will be paramount as we measure the effectiveness of these programs

Whatever it takes, we in Congress are ready to help.

70 percent of 132 respondents believe the State Department's assignment restriction process is biased.

there's no doubt that there's a connection there and needs to be brought out, something that helps us understand as a community how to move forward from here.

It starts by what you’re doing right now so thank you. You’re raising the visibility of this.

It sounded like you were saying that there's not right now.

I want to see the confidence in the American people on vaccines.

What I'm worried about right here is both in terms of having the staggering number of millions of Americans who have lost healthcare.

Is that a good idea or a bad idea?

I urge you to get very familiar with that because I feel like that is a major part of your job.

When I go to my district and I'm talking to the constituents there, some of the toughest conversations that I've had are with people that have lost their health insurance since the start of the pandemic.

This is a real challenge.

But this cannot happen without ongoing support.

Data from the Small Business Administration demonstrates that the Paycheck Protection Program helped save more than 90,000 jobs in my district alone.

We will never get through this crisis until we beat back the virus.

the most severe in our lifetime

I think your messaging has been too geared toward one that is only looking at a certain segment of America.

I want us to make sure that we are looking at it through the eyes of people in my district and people all over this country.

We cannot just keep kicking the can down the road, and that's what the American people are seeing over and over and over again.

I also believe that most Americans, Republicans and Democrats, believe that science and medical expertise should play a key role in making these decisions.

What we owe the American people coming from Congress, coming from our government, is to talk straight about the challenges that we face.