"The notion that we can have energy independence in the United States with fossil fuel is a complete fantasy."
"I think we're long overdue for a significant secular across-the-board upward shift in working wages."
"Economists and experts agree that expanding lawful immigration pathways to the U.S. will grow our workforce, our productivity, and our economy."
"Time and again the solutions have been there. But politics has kept Congress from taking the necessary actions."
"I very much hope that we will try again, and perhaps on the basis of the testimony here, have more success."
"Showering tax cuts on the wealthy, and on big MAGA donors, and on big oil, are in my view not serious pathways to fiscal responsibility."
"Reforming our decades old immigration laws is long overdue."
"The goal---- would be particularly true if the people involved weren't parents, weren't from the community, or even from the State, but were being shipped in just in order to stir up trouble, make new..."
"That is what is missing. I agree."
"I would wrap up by suggesting some flexibility around the 49 percent for communities that don't have a lot of resources."
"How well does the IIJA fund the need that communities are facing to deal with these unprecedented flooding events driven by climate change?"