Pramila Jayapal

Further, a bill sponsored by my friend, Congresswoman Jayapal, the Paycheck Recovery Act of 2020, would go a long way in aiding those who need it most.

We have to open schools safely, and it will cost money.

Without Federal assistance, we are going to see massive educator layoffs...

The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, which passed the House in May and is waiting in the Senate, would go a long way in preventing the kind of catastrophe that leading economists are predicting.

The remedy that Mark Zandi prescribed in his report, which is echoed by the Federal Reserve Chairman, many of our witnesses today, and even by President Trump, is simple: There is a need for more congressional action that places employees…

I have a major bridge in my district that connects west Seattle to downtown, and it was abruptly shuttered after growing cracks were discovered in a routine inspection. Repairs and possible replacement will cost hundreds of millions of…

We must boldly call out the systemic inequities in our healthcare system and achieve health justice.

Access to that healthcare is just as volatile as your employment status.

I don't think anyone can make the case that the current healthcare system is working for us.

I think the data has really shown that this was exactly the right approach.

For far too long funding for militarized police forces in Black communities is prioritized instead of equitable public education for these same communities.

I have introduced a bipartisan bill, as my colleague, Ms. Jackson Lee, referenced. It is H.R. 6918, the Paycheck Recovery Act.

The economic pressures are enormous, with some people going on four and five months without a paycheck.

What happens when an agency fails the people it is supposed to protect? People suffer and people die.

We are in an unprecedented time. We have lost over 100,000 American lives.

In days, we will lose more American lives than we lost during the Vietnam war, 26 million Americans unemployed from COVID, body bags piling up, and insufficient testing and PPE. Democrats took a bad Republican proposal and we made it…

Certainly this Administration has clearly demonstrated how that unchecked executive power can be abused and also exposed the gaps that all of you have spoken about in law that do require congressional action.

I think this Administration, but as we have talked about other administrations, have successfully utilized executive power and taken away some of the power that really should be with us in Congress.

Perhaps the best way to really respect the taxpayers' dollars is to not continue to increase our defense spending until we can show that we are using this money properly and have a full clean audit.

Two agencies every year is not sufficient. We have to ramp this up, and we need to get a clean audit for the entire Department within, say, two years.

That seems unacceptable to me. If a major corporation that was worth $740 billion was not able to tell its shareholders where the money was going, that CEO would be out immediately.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Deputy Secretary, back to the Committee to speak on the President's $740.5 billion military budget.

They need the supplies, they need the tests, they need the protective equipment.

It is time, Mr. Deputy Secretary, to stop playing politics with this. We are losing people's lives as a result.

Calling this a hoax, as President Trump did in the early days of this virus, was extremely damaging.