I want to reiterate again thank you, thank you, thank you for the bold stance that you took with respect to how we fund the Indian Health Service.

I would ask you--and you acknowledged this--to look at Impact Aid and Indian education.

I have introduced legislation called the, quote, 'can't Cancel Your Own Debt Act,' to prohibit Members of Congress from voting to forgive their own student loans.

Mr. Cole. I would appreciate it, because I agree very much with your basic point.

I had very little problem, honestly, with the administration proposal or the legislative compromise on the COVID package that was stripped out.

I want to thank the President of the United States, who, as a Senator, did Violence Against Women Act and has been probably the foremost champion in this area over the years.

This is a problem I know the chair and I have wrestled with for many years.

We talk a lot in Congress about the differences and get covered, but there are lots of things the chair and I work together on.

I would like you to at least consider delaying changes to the program--these are pretty major changes--until next fiscal year.

There is no more important job than funding the Government across the board at every level.

I agree with the 18 Republican Governors who have recently called for your department to pull back proposed regulations.

Quite frankly, the regulations, in our view, would dismantle, you know, frankly, a successful Federal, State, and local partnership that really has enabled millions of children to have a public education.

I want to associate myself with your remarks, particularly when it comes to thanking Rotary for what you have done over the years to keep the focus on this disease.

your profession is pretty ably represented on our full committee by Mike Simpson from Idaho.

I take considerable pride in the fact that for 7 years in a row you and I have managed to get this bill across the line.

I believe to be executive overreach on the charter schools policy.

But pre-COVID, the way it was done was always by consent; in other words, we all agreed pretty much: We know these are going to pass so we are going to group them all together.

I noted that this was the most consequential change to the rules since the establishment of the modern committee system in the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.

That is just not true.

Continuing to utilize proxy voting and remote committee procedures has negative consequences for legislating.

You can't hate someone whose story you know.

Unfortunately, in my view, the results have not been as positive as all of us I think would have wanted.

I believe that both the proxy voting and remote committee procedures have long since outlived their usefulness.

I have never seen such a stunning display of green ties.

The failure to congregate in person has had serious consequences for the culture of this institution.