Jacky Rosen

How can we ensure that funding reaches all communities and not just the largest communities?

Can you commit to having FEMA work with my team and see how we can build flexibility for State officials?

I do appreciate your commitment to increasing funding for FEMA's Nonprofit Security Grant Program.

I think it is really important. And there is going to be more investment because Congress is poised to make additional investments in innovation and workforce development.

I introduced the bipartisan Cyber Ready Workforce Act with Senator Blackburn.

I introduced the bipartisan STEM Restart Act with Senator Hyde-Smith.

Workforce is really important, and a lot of changes were brought on by the pandemic.

The American Rescue Plan, which I was proud to support, included $750 million to the Economic Development Administration for states and communities impacted by job losses in the travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation industries.

Ninety-nine percent of businesses in Nevada are small businesses.

I want to see this surge continue.

We must also ensure there aren't cybersecurity gaps with our medical devices, our pacemakers, for example.

I am currently working on bipartisan legislation that would allow employers to add these features.

The legislative solution that you proposed is precisely what we need to help encourage these types of conversations.

Financial security for Americans and retirement should not be a partisan issue.

I appreciate your testimony and disparities in retirement savings, and this crisis is particularly acute in communities of color.

99 percent of businesses in Nevada are small businesses, so this has a real impact on my state.

You cite statistics showing that Hispanic and Black women are twice as likely to age into poverty than white women.

That is why I was so proud to stand with Chairman Casey in co-sponsoring the Better Care Better Jobs Act.

You are important. The work you do is important.

This hearing is so important, and I just want to thank all of you for your passion, your care, your concern, your worry, your love for our children, our children are our future.

No time to waste. When there is a crisis we need to have an all-hands-on-deck approach in order to do the right thing, particularly by taxpayer dollars.

I think we probably need to extend those timeframes as they are about to expire.

We look forward to working with each of the witnesses here today on critical steps to ensuring that taxpayer dollars are spent efficiently and effectively.

I want to have nimble systems that collects the data and supplies the data to all of us to do the appropriate audits.

We know when COVID-19 shut down our economy, almost exactly two years ago, Congress did act quickly to provide support for American workers and families.