we cannot let it be that one of the most critical components of so much of our technology is not actually manufactured here in the United States.

The loss of life is a national tragedy, and we mourn those lives that were taken too soon.

Far from guaranteed, the speed and strength of our economic recovery is a direct result of increased public investment.

Thanks to the efforts of this Congress and the Biden administration, unemployment is down to 3.6 percent.

I deeply believe that America's best days lie ahead.

But the United States has not escaped the global spike in inflation that is denying workers and families the full benefits of the recovery.

I strongly urge the FAA and Congress to do more to address the problems faced by communities currently struggling with excessive noise.

We can do this by strengthening the bargaining power of workers, and realigning the incentives to reward long-term pro-growth investments.

While everyday American workers and families bear the burden of higher gas prices, big oil is raking in record profits and prioritizing padding the pockets of the wealthy shareholders.

Shareholder primacy is a corporate model that focuses mainly or exclusively on increasing stock prices to generate value for its shareholders.

The top one percent owns roughly 50 percent of all corporate equities, and only about half of the U.S. households own any stock at all.

Thank you all very much for being here. And I want to thank you for joining me in this vital conversation about the economic cost of shareholder primacy.

From the 1930s to the mid-1970s, American corporations largely followed a retain-and-reinvest strategy to focus on long-term innovation and job security for workers.

Without question, older workers are vital to our collective prosperity.

Key to such an economy is a better labor market that ensures all workers, including older workers, have access to quality jobs.

This legislation would establish much-needed guardrails and provide clarity to regulators and investors without stifling innovation.

The pandemic highlighted these underlying structural challenges confronting our care infrastructure.

Ensuring workers can navigate work and care responsibilities is crucial to boosting overall productivity and advancing long-term and robust economic growth which benefits all of us.

Despite the strength of our Nation's ongoing recovery in which the pace of new jobs created has been steady and robust, with almost 5 million Americans returning to work under President Biden the uneven return to the workforce we are…

It is particularly troublesome to note that women comprise nearly two out of three of the workers who have dropped out of the labor force since the beginning of the pandemic.

One of the most important things we can do as a Congress is to help build a policy environment that encourages the creation of well-paying, high-quality, safe jobs.

The Biden Administration Build Back Better Plan will cut taxes for working families, help small businesses, and invest in America's long-term economic prosperity, all while asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share.

By establishing a Federal paid leave program, Build Back Better helps small businesses cover those inevitabilities and reduces the cost of turnover.

The Build Back Better Plan promotes global competitiveness by working to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxes.