I understand from my staff that you discussed the need for us to create an environment where we can be more honest about the problems facing Social Security.

This is an area where we have not been able to find that sweet spot between Republicans and Democrats.

I was pleased to see the Executive Order strengthening the Buy America Act.

Thank you, Chairman Peters, and I appreciate your holding this hearing today.

This has been a very successful program, a 60-percent reduction in time for permitting, 60 percent since 2018.

I believe that the tone, the content, and the aggressive partisanship of some of your public statements have added to the troubling trend of more incivility and division in our public life.

Unfortunately, in the area of SolarWinds, again, a massive attack, the worst breach we have ever had in the history of our country.

So at a time when we are all talking about infrastructure, it is very popular.

This was viewed as a big victory for American manufacturing, and especially for producing the steel industry.

Colleagues, this amendment shouldn't even be necessary, but it is. We are being asked to spend another $1.9 trillion to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, and yet we have no idea how much of the $900 billion that we just enacted 5\1/2\…

I strongly support this amendment. The most important thing we can do right now is to get the vaccines distributed. One of the problems we have is that about 40 percent of Americans are still saying they are uncomfortable getting the…

We have historic levels of deficits now and as a percent of our GDP not seen since World War II, which is frightening.