"the purpose of the exercise should be to extend Medicare solvency."
"I plead with you to act now on these proposals."
"$16 billion in supplemental childcare funding."
"Last month, I am pleased to say Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, his colleagues, including Senator Elizabeth Warren here, and Tina Smith, along with 27 others called for $16 billion in supplemental childca..."
"The absence of childcare means I find something, but I don't feel that comfortable with it."
"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the proposed cuts from House Republicans are so severe that they would kill half a million jobs and reduce gross domestic product (GDP) growth by $138 billio..."
"We are in--by many measures of--of significant and historic recovery, 13.5 million jobs since President Biden has taken office."
"And it's likely to get worse at the end of this month because the childcare stabilization funds that were put in place during the COVID public health emergency expire."
"There's a better way to do things. We can make the kind of public investments to grow the economy and ensure more people benefit from that growth."
"My chief worry about the economy right now is the labor market."
"Our economic legislation, the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), they all strengthened our economy by inves..."