Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I don't think anybody here would agree that we should not be wasting $281 billion on improper payments.”

My opinion is this mandate is going to increase the cost of Federal construction projects, and it is going to curb competition.

If we do not immediately put together a COVID supplemental package, we are going to put everyone, and seniors and people who are uninsured... they will turn around and go home.

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.