Sean Patrick Maloney: “As I stated with Congressman Meeks, diversity makes us stronger. We are very supportive of the comptroller's plan.”

He should talk to the 128,000 folks that are going to be affected in my district by that tax cut for working- and middle-class people.

Our goal cannot just be to keep rural communities alive--we need to do the work to ensure that those communities are thriving and can succeed in a 21st century economy, and that's what I hope to get out of this hearing today.

My job is to win elections for the Democrats and I take that seriously because the moral imperative is keeping the gavel out of the hands of Kevin McCarthy who would have overturned the results of the election.

We can win elections and stand for something. But we also need to talk like human beings.