The Trump administration even directed loan officers to approve EIDL loan applications when there were clear indications that the applicants were engaged in identity theft.

It's our responsibility... to ensure that these relief funds are available to all eligible Americans and not stolen by criminals and criminal enterprises.

Well, thank you very much. Let me thank the entire panel, not just for your very substantive presentations here today, but also for your very timely presentations.

The SBA failed to implement basic safeguards to prevent fraud against the EIDL program.

When people break the law, they should pay the price for it, especially considering how hurting everyone was during this time.

I am honored to represent the dedicated professionals of the Secret Service, and I look forward to your questions.

we tend to do whatever we can to lessen the efficiency of the process

We assisted by appropriating $40 million in additional funds to the PRAC as part of the American Rescue Plan.

It's one thing to have a need for speed. It's something else to use the need for speed as a subterfuge for getting money out of the door to people known to be criminals, or felt to be criminals.

The Trump administration contributed to this problem by failing to put basic fraud controls in place.

My question is how did they know where that office was?

To share one passage from that book, I quote, ``True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.'' Mr. Speaker, this legislation will provide Federal agencies with necessary tools to ensure that peace and…

we have an obligation to workers and to families to get it right this time around and create policies that are equitable, fair, and that move us toward our goal--I believe our shared goal of economic prosperity for all.

The Biden administration manipulating the science to side with union bosses against our students.

We don't need to study these issues anymore. We know what the problems are.

I'm glad we're having it now so that Americans can see how their policymakers failed them.

Just keep on living. You'll see how fast the government can work. It worked real fast before 1954.

Today is May 17. It may not mean anything to anybody in the room but me, but it was 68 years ago today--I remember exactly where I was--when the Supreme Court handed down its 1954 Brown decision.

I ask that you please hold a hearing on the topic of the damage that was done to our young kids by these closures of schools.

This will probably be the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation.

I have been saying for a long time now that this too shall pass. But you know, I grew up in apostasy. And I`m beginning to believe that we may be threatening to really undermine this democracy. And this country really is teetering on the…

We documented 204 attacks on science by the Trump administration, 29 of which were related to COVID-19 directly.

the Trump administration engaged in a persistent pattern of political interference in the Nation's pandemic response.

the previous administration engaged with and allowed the meatpacking industry to review their work.

I do consider this as an attempt to distract from what we are trying to get to here in terms of interfering with the work of our scientists.