"I want to single out, though, Jonathan Davidson, who helped me for the first number of years before my friend Michael Bennet stole him, where he became Chief of Staff."
"One of the things that we have talked about in the past is a relatively small piece of the financing sector, but one I think that has great potential to grow is CDFIs, community development financial ..."
"I would ask my colleagues to trust me on the math on this."
"I want to call out my friend Mike Crapo, who was the lead Republican on that."
"I just want to compliment you, Secretary Buttigieg. You met with frontline workers from WMATA."
"I do think there are a number of our community banks who want to try to do more in this space."
"COVID obviously exacerbated this--the wealth gap in this country, the wealth gap between Black families, White families, 10:1 differential."
"We are working on a program... that would help all first-generation homebuyers."
"One of the things that I have worked with the chairman and others on is making sure that we encourage States to go ahead and expand Medicaid."
"I think we all know that obviously COVID exposed some of the racial disparities we see in health-care coverage."
"We have offensive capability capabilities as well."
"We need to hold some people accountable, but in the interim, we also need to make sure there was at least a -- you know, when the fire is burning, you got to report it to the firemen, and you’ve got t..."