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

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

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

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.

The reason that Canadian gray wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone is because they had killed all the native wolves.

Yes, I just want to make the point that Idaho passed legislation to cull 90 percent of the gray wolf population by any means.

The greatest threat of delisting grizzly bears today and to potentially relisting wolves is the actions of the state legislatures, particularly in Montana and Idaho.

the enhanced UI payments were literally the only thing that allowed ordinary Americans who lost their work through no fault of their own to pay their bills, to buy groceries, to support their families.

I am so glad that we are holding a hearing on the unemployment system, which has long been neglected and underfunded by Federal and state policymakers.

What you are clearly sort of affirming is the chairman's thought that we are paying people to stay home.

I am so glad you chose an Appalachian and West Virginia specifically to host this first Ways and Means Committee hearing of this Congress.