I thank Chairman DeFazio for yielding and for this transformational bill that has been put forward, a deeply necessary investment in our country's infrastructure. My amendment would ensure that our Nation has a well-equipped workforce to…

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…

The American people do not support Betsy DeVos. We don't support her radical attempts to privatize education. We don't support her corrupt efforts to take coronavirus relief away from public schools so that it can be sent to private ones…

I rise for Charleena Lyles, Che Taylor, Manuel Ellis, Tony McDade, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Eric Garner, Atatiana Jefferson, Ezell Ford, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Gabriella Nevarez…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Apprenticeships, especially joint labor management programs, are effective in helping workers move into skilled and middle-class jobs.

This is just such a wonderful hearing.

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

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