What if you didn't have to have transfer payments because we paid people a living wage?

The money is there, the resources are there, we are an extraordinarily wealthy nation, but they tend to be concentrated in a few places.

Even--I have one of the wealthiest districts in the country, Northern Virginia, and yet there are huge pockets of poverty.

I think we have to recognize that there is a balance there between the enormous advantages to having a mother stay home.

I stand in steadfast opposition to both S.J. Res. 9 and S.J. Res. 24. These resolutions represent a deeply concerning, misguided attempt to undermine the Endangered Species Act. These partisan resolutions are also out of step with what…

This is the greatest misunderstanding of what this legislation does that I have ever seen.

We need to stop the tax cheating.

We have complete autonomy. We have not given our sovereignty away to anybody else.

This lack of sovereignty--the sovereignty thing is the emptiest issue I have ever seen.

in no way is insisting that international corporations who have been purposefully cheating on their taxes, avoiding taxes through great manipulation, is a move to global socialism.

I think we all recognize that the Endangered Species Act is a balancing act with many different concerns that citizens have.

I think I would restate that the Endangered Species Act is indeed more important now than ever.

I think it was Mr. Wood who said in the original legislation it talked about bringing any listed species to the point of which ESA regulations are no longer necessary.

As co-chair of the Endangered Species Caucus, I rise today in strong opposition to amendment No. 55 of the National Defense Authorization Act offered by Mr. Biggs of Arizona. We are facing a biodiversity crisis in America and around the…

I stand in opposition to this bill. It is nothing more than a disingenuous attempt to undermine the Federal unemployment insurance program, which provided a critical lifeline to millions of Americans during the pandemic. My Republican…

I believe almost all of us are here to make America stronger, to serve the people who sent us here. This act will do exactly the opposite. It will hurt the 33,000 American solar installers who will lose their jobs. It will raise energy…

The unfairness of having the rich pay by one set of rules and working families pay by another is pernicious and dangerous.

President Biden's commitment to a worker-centered trade policy was trying to reconcile our commitment to global trade.

The IRA takes a step in the right direction by dedicating funds--4 billion under a manufacturing program, a bonus tax credit for the wind and solar developments, a loan program worth $250 billion in loans--to specifically invest in energy…

The IRA recognizes one essential truth, which is that while there has been a lot of hand-waving in the past, assuming that technological shifts will just naturally take care of workers and communities, we know that is absolutely not the…

There is a $9.7 billion investment in rural electric cooperatives, allowing for rural communities to switch to clean energy not only for the benefits for clean air and climate, but also for the benefits for jobs and economic development in…

withdrawing from the TPP was one of the enormous strategic mistakes of the last 20 years

I want to praise the work that you have done and CDC and SAMHSA on suicide prevention.

The $80 million directed just for the Suicide Prevention Program for CDC for fiscal year 2024 is just wonderful.

I would like to stress the importance of AGOA to Ethiopia's economic recovery from the recent years of devastating conflict and the COVID pandemic.