Bob Menendez Jr.

We have a transit state of good repair backlog of more than $100 billion.

Thank you. In recent history, when working on surface transportation reauthorizations, we have adhered to an 80/20 rule of 80 percent spending on highways, 20 percent goes to transit.

I worked on a bipartisan basis with members from both urban and rural areas at the end of the last Congress to secure 1,000 new Medicare-supported graduate medical education slots in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, the first increase…

In March of last year, as COVID began to spread in States like mine, the shutdowns helped save lives.

Today's hearing is not only important to highlight the impact of the crushing debt burden on America's working and middle class but also the importance of broad-based forgiveness.

I hope that President Biden will take advantage of this rare opportunity to bring relief to working families that need it the most.

I appreciate the work that you and all of those public employees at the IRS have done, incredible work, despite having their funding undermined for years by congressional Republicans.

If I was one of your shareholders I would be concerned that you pocketed $20 million in salary and compensation, but yet your company might be responsible for a couple of billion dollars to American families.

According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper, cutting the corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent cost a whopping $1.5 trillion alone.

I think it would be reckless and cruel to let the program expire when there are still about $50 billion of desperately needed PPP funding remaining.

The brunt of that pain is being felt in minority communities; 33 percent of black renters, 20 percent of Latino renters, and 16 percent of Asian renters said that they were behind on their rent compared to 13 percent of white renters.

Would you say that current mortgage and rental payment delinquency rates, particularly among minority families, indicates that the job is done?

It is time for the United States to lead a coordinated multilateral response that has been lacking in the last several years.

the United States must be in the leadership to put a focus on that.

The OAS said the elections need to be rerun.

We are going to shove drugs up the gringos' noses.

the regime to make way for democratic aspirations of its own citizens.

democracy can be fragile and requires vigilance.

the cost of inaction is too great.

That transition brings some extraordinary opportunity to create new middle-class jobs and reinvigorate our manufacturing and energy sectors.

So do shareholders have the right to know whether their company's political donations contradict their public commitments and whether those companies may be supporting outcomes that might pose a material risk to the company's bottom line.

If due to climate change these homes become uninsurable and unmarketable, the value of these homes and the wealth of homeowners is at risk.

A large share of homeowners' wealth is locked up in their homes, and homeownership is the most important and accessible way to build wealth.

Absolutely, that's exactly what I'm referencing. And, and so, you know, what is the problem with recognizing that white supremacists, those who stormed the Capitol with Confederate flags with Nazi symbols, and who, you know, shouted racial…

Such actions would be devastating to the U.S. and allied interests in this entire region.