Would it not be helpful to have more funding support for local folks who understand and appreciate the severity of the challenges faced by those communities where the disasters happen within?

I want to make sure that we continue to emphasize the importance of focusing on retirement security for our seniors and, frankly, for those in their 40's and 50's.

That is why today I introduced the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2021 to remove the RET and simplify the decisionmaking process for seniors.

Every American should be able to work hard, save for retirement, and enjoy their golden years with peace of mind.

I, too, sponsored the SECURE Act, which included pooled employer plans to help small businesses launch retirement plans.

The importance of this issue, and if you think about $92 billion in 2015 over a decade, that is close to $1 trillion lost out of American's retirement accounts.

I cannot think of a better way to show the American people that we care about them more than we do of ourselves by working on their behalf and not having a political partisan conversation just because there is a microphone and a camera…

I have really appreciated the IGs, because I believe the oversight function of this Committee and Congress is really important.

What this threshold of $600 or $10,000 does, it captures all the information, all the transactions of everyday Americans, not the rich ones but the ones working paycheck to paycheck.

What the President seeks to do is level the playing field so that wealthy individuals are forced to pay taxes in the same way that working-class people do every day in this country.

I have got to tell you that this proposal is not in the same universe of accomplishing that goal.

Senator Tim Scott is basically responsible for this. He was for police reform before George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks and Ahmaud Arbery, introducing a police accountability bill following the 2015 shooting of Walter…

Bestowing international legitimacy on the Taliban and allowing them access to $7.5 billion dollars at the New York Fed would be a grave mistake.

I think the intelligence community frankly got it right here.

I share Senator Tillis' comments, and I think probably the Committee, that the Taliban has not changed.

It is unbelievable to me that a group of American civilians had to save this woman's life because her own Government abandoned her.

The Taliban is failing on all of these fronts. They are a brutal, murderous, terrorist group intertwined with al Qaeda.

We should not be granting recognition.

I thank my colleagues, both Senator Collins and Senator Lankford, for their thoughts and their comments and their words today because what we are talking about today is not about simply a $3\1/2\ trillion spending bill. We are talking…

I think about the fact that gas prices are up over 40 percent as a Nation...

Democrats control the White House, the Senate, the House. They have the votes to raise the debt ceiling.

There is nothing compassionate about spending money we do not have on new benefits we cannot afford.

Would you agree that the fact is that when we have limited supply and an increasing demand...

I will just say that the proof will be in the pudding and maybe you and I will be here in a couple years to have a conversation about the results of the tax increase that will make us less competitive and not more competitive.

Let me ask Secretary Yellen. The phase of spiking inflation, slowing growth...