We have a lot of work to do. I am a candidate, Brian, I'm down, you know, nine points from my election two years ago and it was all around defund the police, a million dollars worth of ads in my district and all over the country around a…

She's going to be the speaker again, there's no question.

The single policy that would do more than any other to reduce child poverty is a universal $2,700 child tax credit.

I am proud to have introduced the American Family Act in the House of Representatives with Congresswoman Suzan DelBene of Washington.

Obviously, the Congressman has been one of the big advocates, but we have been trying to deal on our side through the legislative branch with taking steps to help accommodate.

It is ensuring that your constituents are best served.

Until Congress can demonstrate to the American people that it can work in a bipartisan way to solve real problems, I believe that including this language in the approps bill to block a proposed pay raise for Members of Congress is just the…

One of the reasons we do these public hearings is we have hearings, meetings with the Library of Congress, with GPO, with the Clerk, but it is very important for us to hear how other people are interfacing with them.

we would love to have the information at our fingertips sooner rather than later.

If you are going to talk about increasing pay anywhere in the legislative side of things, let's go with the staff first.

Until we put our constituents first, and if we are going to talk about legislative branch increases, let's think about the staff and the good quality people that we need so we can better serve our constituents.

But this is something that we think is very, very special. The projects that you spearhead are important.