Jack Reed

We have to make loan forgiveness simpler.

We need that money for infrastructure. It will create jobs. It will help kids breathe.

This is absolutely critical, and the Chair has raised a number of important issues.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:08 p.m., adjourned until Monday, July 26, 2021, at 3 p.m…

What I think that does is stress the need for improving human capital, so that they can be competitive in jobs that they might otherwise not be.

Climate change every day becomes much more pronounced and much more obvious to all of us, and the impact on the economy is something that I think is not transitory.

So with reasonable and available daycare, that should contribute to increased labor force participation.

They pointed out that one of the problems is literacy; that they have a significant number of adults who walk in and they want jobs, they want to work, but they have very poor literacy, and very poor numeracy and, digital skills too.

I secured about $28 million in the Defense Appropriations Bills for a submarine, industrial-based support of workers, and of training, and education initiatives.

I was at a celebration earlier of 14 separate units in Providence, Rhode Island funded from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

It is not only providing housing, it is stabilizing the neighborhood.

Everywhere I go in Rhode Island, everywhere we go around the country, affordable housing, affordable housing is the cry.

It is a holistic problem. It is not just one thing. And you need interagency cooperation.

Congress recently has doubled down on subsidizing housing and that does not appear to be working so far.

So if we want to make housing affordable, I think we ought to be talking about how Government subsidies foster higher housing prices.

We need housing to send people to.

I think today we are going to be discussing a number of disconnected bills, most of which increase Government spending and interference in housing markets.

That is why we are trying to push the legislation.

S.2008, introduced by Senator Reed on the Committee and Senator Collins to strengthen the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

I think there is an opportunity and we should be working on a bipartisan solution to comprehensive reform of housing finance.

There is a market failure here. When you have families that cannot afford it, and yet the workers are significantly underpaid, the market is not working

The ability to bargain, the ability to form a union and advocate collectively could be transformative for care workers more broadly

January 6 was a disheartening moment.

Instead of taking a bipartisan approach, the Biden administration is blindly racing to offer sanctions relief to an Iranian regime.

The most enduring U.S. policy towards Iran would be one that is bipartisan.