Jack Reed

The fiscal year 2021 Appropriations law included full funding--$30 million--for the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, which I authored.

When I was a kid in Rhode Island, they did not call that 'payday lending.' They called it 'loan sharking.'

I think we have to stop this.

We should not pay for a big infrastructure package by borrowing or printing hundreds of billions of more dollars.

We had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, all-time record low unemployment for African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, many other subsets of our population.

Housing is not infrastructure.

I assume, and I know you will follow up with the Department of Education to try to collaborate, to see how we can integrate our literacy programs, as well as our training programs.

I am pushing very hard to get $100 billion in the Jobs Plan for the schools.

The fiscal year 2021 Appropriations law included full funding--$30 million--for the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, which I authored.

I have to commend Dr. Sharpless for his efforts on childhood cancer. I was teamed up with Senator Capito.

The Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program is absolutely essential.

I have been now working and trying to bolster the Section 317 Immunization Program for many years.

That is why Pew sees the State Flood Mitigation Revolving Fund Act, a proposal from Senators Reed, Kennedy, and Menendez as a solid approach for expanding flood mitigation investment.

We wholeheartedly endorse the proposal by Senators Reed, Kennedy, and Menendez to establish a flood-specific revolving loan fund.

I think providing low- and moderate-income individuals with funds to mitigate flood risk would be a positive.

I want to highlight and commend Senator Collins and my colleagues in a White House for the IMAGINE Act which is designed to improve materials and techniques for construction.

Democrats have taken a similar approach to transit spending.

The Administration keeps extending a nationwide eviction moratorium that lacks both a legal basis and an economic justification.

The Biden administration wants another $85 billion for transit as part of a wasteful, multitrillion-dollar welfare and infrastructure bill.

I am big fan of the Family Self-Sufficiency program. I have seen it working in Rhode Island and working well.

The public transportation industry has encountered one of its greatest challenges ever through this pandemic.

Given the billions that Democrats have spent and want to spend on housing and transit, I hope we will hear from today's nominees about how they plan to protect taxpayer dollars, protect it from waste and misuse.

Should the local jurisdictions and States where these systems reside have any responsibility to pay for these systems? Evidently not, according to my colleagues.

The Biden administration wants to keep families in housing projects.

Cyber security is the issue de jure and will be, I think, for the rest of our lives.