the typical direct care worker, a Senator Casey said, makes about $15 an hour, works 36 hours a week in assisted living, and works for a for profit company.

As Chairman of the Aging Committee, my top priority is keeping our promises to older Americans and to Americans with disabilities.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today, and I will turn to Ranking Member Braun for his opening statement.

We need to address the chronic underfunding and understaffing for the state agencies that conduct nursing home oversight, so they can effectively protect the health and safety of residents.

If we say we are, as a Nation, the United States, the greatest country in the world, then we have to have the best, not second, not third, the best long-term care in the world, and we are not there yet.

The bottom line is we are not holding China and Mexico accountable.

This equates to someone dying every five minutes. It is a major airliner going down every single day.

We need to do more to stop the flow of fentanyl into America and into our communities, so I am fighting to pass the Fend Off Fentanyl Act.

I was one of the, many were co-sponsors of Senator Warnock's bill that proposed a cap on co-payments for insulin at $35 bucks a month.

I was one of the, many were co-sponsors of Senator Warnock's bill that proposed a cap on co-payments for insulin at $35 bucks a month.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the panel.

I introduced a bill that focused on what I believe are what should be the five freedoms for children.

This is why a bipartisan group of 18 Democrat and Republican State Attorney Generals have called for fentanyl as it is being smuggled into our country, as a weapon of mass destruction.

The bottom line is we are not holding China and Mexico accountable.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the panel.

This equates to someone dying every five minutes. It is a major airliner going down every single day.

We need to do more to stop the flow of fentanyl into America and into our communities, so I am fighting to pass the Fend Off Fentanyl Act.

I introduced a bill that focused on what I believe are what should be the five freedoms for children.

This is why a bipartisan group of 18 Democrat and Republican State Attorney Generals have called for fentanyl as it is being smuggled into our country, as a weapon of mass destruction.

This equates to someone dying every five minutes. It is a major airliner going down every single day.

We need to do more to stop the flow of fentanyl into America and into our communities, so I am fighting to pass the Fend Off Fentanyl Act.

The bottom line is we are not holding China and Mexico accountable.

I was one of the, many were co-sponsors of Senator Warnock's bill that proposed a cap on co-payments for insulin in the commercial market at $35 bucks a month.

This is why a bipartisan group of 18 Democrat and Republican State Attorney Generals have called for fentanyl as it is being smuggled into our country, as a weapon of mass destruction.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the panel. And sorry I wasn't here earlier.