A big shoutout to my colleagues for bringing up that particular issue.

Trauma informed approaches do work, having more counselors in our schools, having more music programs...

If we can get a clear-eyed understanding of how these failures occurred, we can help prevent them from happening in the future.

It is unacceptable that millions of Texans were left without power for days on end during one of the worst winter storms in our state's history.

Texans deserve better.

I look forward to working with him and my other colleagues on both sides of the aisle on this important effort.

We must learn from this episode and redouble our research efforts in support of a more reliable and resilient electricity sector.

Thank you very much. Sorry about that. Dr. Diffenbaugh, your research group has estimated a cost of--cost to the economy from global warming of $5 trillion over 2 decades.

Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and Ranking Member Lucas, for this important hearing that we're having today.

We’re going to need to hire more teachers. We’re going to need to hire teachers’ assistants to give students the individualized and small group support that they need to catch up academically.

The entire bill is important, obviously, but for me as an educator, I’m looking at the $130 billion that’s going to our K-12 schools.

We have to understand that the Federal government has been disinvesting from public housing for the last 30 years, and the Federal government hasn`t given a dime to public housing over the last 10 years. We have to preserve our public…

So bravo, once again, President Biden. Again, this was a huge step. No one should be profiting off of the pain and abuse that`s taking place in our Criminal Justice System.

We need to pass the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. We need to end qualified immunity. We need to legalize marijuana, end cash bail, end solitary confinement and look for alternatives to incarceration.

It`s a breath of fresh air. Let me say that to begin with, I mean, to hear Joe Biden -- President Biden center racial justice and racial equity, it`s a breath of fresh air and is very exciting to hear him speak that way. And I commend his…

And I think the bottom line is, we have to meet the needs of the American people, period.

So, there`s a lot we know now, based on reporting after the fact. So, we know the FBI had information of a possible attack on the Capitol. That information was not shared, not only within the FBI, but wasn`t shared with Capitol Police.

But again, like what surprised me was not that these white nationalists and domestic terrorists tried to attack the Capitol. What surprised me was that we weren`t prepared.