"Some call this group of people disconnected youth, but I think the term that I've heard my colleague Bobby Scott use is Opportunity Youth."
"One of the things about your testimony that's important is, you know, I'm a senior citizen now."
"If I could also respond to Mr. Mulready on the point about regulators sort of looking at and reshaping agencies is not something that we need to look at."
"I think we often assume that rates charged homeowners by homeowners insurance is based upon some rational algorithm using actuarial data, but that is not always true."
"My legal career, the highlight of it was a lawsuit that I brought against the Nationwide Insurance Company for redlining minority neighborhoods all of the United States in 1998."
"my innate sense of fairness makes me add an addendum to the comment that I last made about insurance rates not being purely actuarial in nature."
"I think the Dobbs decision was a disaster, both in terms of the human consequences of it, but also the radical nature of undoing not just 50 years of Roe v. Wade, but a hundred years of 14th Amendment..."
"I think we need a national protection. I have a bipartisan bill that would protect both Griswold and Roe and restore to where we are, pre-Dobbs."
"But Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed..."
"I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that."
"this is a hearing that is about how abortion bans have created a health care nightmare."
"for the first time in my life, I felt like an endangered species. No one should be made to feel that way."