Donald Payne Jr.

Now is the time really to make the necessary investments now in the rail infrastructure to prepare for expected levels of demand.

It is crucial in the tunnel as well.

We need to make these investments now to prepare for that time very soon when this economy will begin to be back open and running.

I could not survive if I graduated out of the DBE program right now.

I would hope that, if we have this hearing again, we will invite at least one firm that has graduated from the program.

I need to stay in the program right now, because I have 45 mouths to feed here.

Do you think that any extension of the CARES Act payroll grant provision should be extended to Amtrak employees, as well?

I support this effort to provide voters more ways to return their ballots but have concerns about the security of the ballot boxes.

It is no one's pleasure to have to bash the administration, but I see that that is not necessary in Arizona.

We have a President who has talked about injecting persons with disinfectant...

The cost is too high. It is too high for minorities.

At what cost? That is the question. At what cost?

This is abominable. This is absolutely abominable, what I am listening to.

We are responsible for making sure that nothing happens to these children. But you see, the administration went down a road to collect these people and lock them up in cages.

I hope that it is clear now, with more than 3 million cases and well over 130,000 deaths Nation-wide...

During the pandemic, States have been left to fend for themselves...

For too many communities, the pandemic is continuing to get worse. The magnitude of this pandemic is devastating.

President Trump was instead downplaying the threat of the virus and telling the American people that it was 'under control'...

The magnitude of this pandemic is devastating.

Instead of taking proactive steps early on to invoke the Defense Production Act, build up our supply reserves...

It didn't have to be this way, but there was a clear lack of leadership, most importantly at the White House itself.

Let me say, even before the pandemic, detainees had reported troubling instances, abuse of force, solitary confinement, and punishment in retaliation for speaking out about poor conditions of confinement in at least one of your detention…

Our Nation is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

This administration's response to the outbreak has been an utter failure on a multitude of levels.

Leadership must be guided by equity, not political maneuvering and capitalism, at the expense of human lives.