It was used to get out the vote as opposed to what they said they were going to do, and that was provide PPE due to COVID.

Let us come up with an electronic way to transmit and receive ballots.

I ask that all of us would put aside whether we're on the Left or the Right, and think about helping more Americans achieve the American dream.

if we can get, again, first-generation, first-time homebuyers that ability to build equity twice, that then helps in terms of the ability to not get deep in debt when your kid needs to go to college.

We do need to do regulatory streamlining and put more tools in the tool chest on how we get this right.

Let's craft laws and policies that help pave the pathway to home ownership.

It's time for a new approach. An approach that gives Americans who have lost hope a roadmap to opportunity and prosperity.

We have a huge racial wealth gap in this country, roughly 10 to 1 White-Black ratio, a lot of that due to home ownership differentials.

I rise today in recognition of the retirement of Alan Kohler. Alan leaves the FBI as Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, a challenging post he has held since 2020. Over his long and impressive career with the FBI, Alan…

shouldn't we also allow those employees who have student debt to go ahead and qualify as well?

We can look at 40,000 a week going forward?

I am going to hold you to it.

I have come to speak on a different topic, but I want to commend my friend the Senator from Illinois for his comments. I agree with him. Just yesterday, my colleague and dear friend Senator Kaine and I met with four of the families who…

The position of the Administration cannot pass any kind of smell test.

We do. And you know, yes, it is.

I think we're going to have to deal with it, both legislatively.

if this had been not a $200 billion bank but a $5 billion bank that management's mistakes, not having a risk officer, other items, and failure of basic prudential regulation should have caught this.

interest rate mismanagement is Banking 101, and again, even at a $5 billion bank they should have been called out.

I am not sure at that point what regulatory structure could have prevented that.

I had real questions. Was this a regulatory and bank management failure or was it, as some on my side of the aisle have indicated, was it a statutory failure?

I really think we need to focus on this poultry issue.

I do think we have had a relatively stable peace agreement with the Ethiopians since November.

I think we need a free trade agreement with Kenya.

I think it is an extraordinarily important relation. Most all of us in this committee are concerned about Chinese investment.

I feel very strongly about expanding the Abraham Accords and, particularly, bringing more economic opportunities to Palestinians.