Cecilia Rouse: “I am pleased and honored to appear before you today as a nominee to be a Member of the President's Council of Economic…”

I do believe that the best way for us to get back on solid economic footing is by getting through this pandemic, and that means supporting households, supporting businesses, especially small businesses, supporting our State and local…

One of the issues that is having a lot of political debate around it already is the way that President Biden has proposed to pay for this, including by increasing the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.

I believe we have to be doing smart investments as we come out of this that have economic returns such as those on investments in infrastructure, R&D, education.

If we do not, we run the risk of actually finding ourselves in a downward spiral, because the capacity to deal with our debt is not only the amount that we spend but the size of our economy.