You play an essential role in helping Congress exercise its oversight responsibilities, not only in pushing government programs to run more efficiently and effectively, rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, but also in keeping an eye on…

I think you and I need to do some kind of bipartisan initiative designating Mr. Dodaro as the smartest man we have ever met in our lives on multiple issues.

I mean, moving forward, regardless of where you stand on healthcare, I mean, we should know as a country how much we are going to save if we have a robust preventative program, regime established for our citizens.

The Library of Congress is one of my favorite institutions on Capitol Hill.

we appreciate it. And we saw you in action just today with a beautiful speech, and I think it shows the importance of how deep your work goes in connecting ourselves, our democracy, with the world and their leaders.

I was just down there last weekend in Orocovis and understanding that, as we talked about just a little earlier, about deterred maintenance and some issues with Puerto Rico themselves have had that were not prepared, if you will.

These Federal Funds that you allocate every year are critical to changing peoples' lives.

As the cost of living increases, it is our responsibility to ensure that our low and middle-income families can continue to call Seattle home.

Federal Funding goes an incredibly long way to addressing this issue, eradicating homelessness, and expanding access to affordable housing.

Housing affordability is one of the biggest challenges that we face.

I wanted to say that we appreciate everything that you have tried to do and your willingness to send someone to participate in a lot of those briefings that we have had for our members and for our staff.