"The built environment either serves to hurt or to heal."
"But infrastructure decisions can sometimes hurt, not heal. It can tear our communities apart."
"We need to start thinking about what a post-pandemic world looks like and how we can renew and rebuild."
"We have a great opportunity here to rebuild the infrastructure of our country, but we also have an obligation, more so than anything else, to help those underserved communities that have been devastat..."
"We need more parks. We need more parkways. We need more pedestrian and bicycle access so that everybody will have access to good parks, and the healing power of parks and parkways that these expresswa..."
"I am very optimistic about the $20 billion that is in the infrastructure bill to restore neighborhoods."
"I find it ironic that we are experiencing technical difficulty on a hearing regarding federal investment in technology."
"COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of the American economy and American society."
"120,000 Americans are dead, and we have a government lockdown of the American economy because federal government failed to protect the American people."
"The United States is the richest country in the world. We pay more for health care than any other country, and we have no treatment and we have no vaccine."
"The United States' federal response to coronavirus, COVID-19 was late, sloppy, and adversarial."