I have continued to push Congress to shore up these protections, including dismantling barriers like age discrimination.

I think it is pretty clear that there has been a lot of hot air and a lot of fiction flying around Washington about what happened in California.

Here is what we have. We had a special unemployment program set up for the pandemic, the worst crisis in 100 years. And a lot of things went well and a lot of things didn't go very well.

We must work to ensure that older adults are economically secure in retirement so that we can spend time--so they can spend time with their families and friends after decades of hard work and contributions to our economy.

I have continued to push Congress to shore up these protections, including dismantling barriers like age discrimination.

Senator, kids can't do their homework, which kind of crystallized it for me.

We are trying to do everything we can to phase it out, to get rid of it. It is not good for our workers, not good for workers with disabilities.

Senator, kids can't do their homework, which kind of crystallized it for me.

I think it is pretty clear that there has been a lot of hot air and a lot of fiction flying around Washington about what happened in California.

I am going to support your nomination proudly. And you are not only prepared to do this job and well-qualified, I think you will serve with distinction as you have in the Department of Labor in your work already.

I want to phase it out and to make sure that people with disabilities have a fair shot in the workplace.

Isn't it true that 95 to 98 percent of the fraud in California was not from the regular, the regular unemployment program that you administered, but actually from the specially created pandemic unemployment assistance program created by…

We must work to ensure that older adults are economically secure in retirement so that we can spend time--so they can spend time with their families and friends after decades of hard work and contributions to our economy.

If corporations were doing their job, we wouldn't need a Department of Labor, but you need one in the United States of America.

I want a Department of Labor that is fighting every day for workers, not as some have characterized it.

I want to phase it out and to make sure that people with disabilities have a fair shot in the workplace.

I am going to support your nomination proudly. And you are not only prepared to do this job and well-qualified, I think you will serve with distinction as you have in the Department of Labor in your work already.

Here is what we have. We had a special unemployment program set up for the pandemic, the worst crisis in 100 years. And a lot of things went well and a lot of things didn't go very well.

I believe Congress must continue fighting for workplace protections, fair wages, and retirement benefits to support older adults in the workplace and beyond.

I believe Congress must continue fighting for workplace protections, fair wages, and retirement benefits to support older adults in the workplace and beyond.

we want to make sure that we can have the elements of those energy products, the content of them, made in America.

I think it is pretty clear that there has been a lot of hot air and a lot of fiction flying around Washington about what happened in California.

I appreciate that, and I want to salute you and your team on the great success you have had in providing better taxpayer service this year.

The Texas blackout is just one example of larger, more frequent, and longer-lasting power outages caused by the growing incidence of extreme weather.

I believe Congress must continue fighting for workplace protections, fair wages, and retirement benefits to support older adults in the workplace and beyond.