He said he’s not inclined to support judicial nominee Steven Menashi. “My thought is, look, if he’ll treat a United States senator the way he treated us, I wonder how he would treat the people.”

He offered legislation to extend $255 million in annual mandatory funding for historically black colleges and other minority-serving institutions for a two-year period.

She introduced the RETAIN Teachers Act (H.R. 4342) to help attract teachers and keep them in the classroom by streamlining burdensome paperwork for programs designed to help teachers finance their education and repay student loans.

They questioned Labor Secretary nominee Eugene Scalia sharply about his record on workplace protections, LGBTQ protections, disability discrimination, and more.