Catherine Cortez Masto

Right now, in too many places around the country, if somebody walks into a mental health center, it is the equivalent of saying, 'I am sorry, the grant ran out, can you come back in a few months?'

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. Thereupon, the Senate, at 4:10 p.m., adjourned until Monday, June 14, 2021, at 3 p.m. ____________________

I think we would be missing an opportunity if we did not take a look at what was happening there.

Madam Chair, thank you. Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in this important discussion today.

There would be huge benefits for merchants and small businesses to be able to have an account or central bank digital currency in some form.

How could a Federal Reserve-run digital currency system make it easier to connect to those unbanked and provide financial relief directly?

I am a firm believer that open-source software is critical for security.

One of the benefits of a CBDC, of a no-fee account offered by the Federal Reserve, central bank digital money, is it would be provided to the public without profitability considerations.

I share Secretary Haaland's commitment to taking meaningful action on addressing the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people across Indian Country.

I recognize the decades-long pursuit of federal recognition by the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

One of the great things this Administration has already done on this effort is to reconstitute the White House Council on Native American Affairs.

I recognize that federal recognition is extremely important to communities seeking to establish a government-to-government relationship with the United States.

Senator Cortez Masto and I have worked on that have been launched in these last couple of years.

I am hopeful that you will help me make sure that that happens.

I want to make sure our tribal communities are brought into this conversation, because they are dealing with the wildfires and necessary resources to assist them.

We must ensure that the needs of Indian Country are met.

I look forward to working with Congress on this very important issue to the Lumbee people.

I am excited that the Biden Administration is in support of a permanent Carcieri fix.

What I would like to do is actually apply those lessons and make sure that we have the advantage of everything that we learned this time.

I think we have to incentivize them to kind of do this maybe in the background from their regular business.

What should we be doing to provide grief counseling in the wake of COVID even more robustly than we might already do?

Thank you so much. Thank you to all the panelists.

Every community deserves quality transit and transportation services that build connections to their opportunities and provides essential mobility.

The IRS could not effectively do tax administration, particularly in these communities, without LITCs.

I echo comments of my colleagues on the challenges that the IRS has faced, particularly being underfunded.