The maritime transportation system is vast and complex. It touches virtually every aspect of American life.

We need to utilize this program and provide funding to protect American maritime jobs and assist operators struggling to stay afloat.

I look forward to working with Ranking Member Gibbs to conduct oversight and pass important legislation to support our maritime industry and the Coast Guard.

I look forward to working alongside my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support our maritime community and United States Coast Guard.

There is a clear tension between the urgency to transition to a low-carbon economy and the cost of carrying out that transition.

I think that is something we can all agree upon.

If we talk about environmental equity, then it is precisely the environmental justice communities that we need to support.

Every credible study indicates a significant need to build new interstate transmission lines.

This will be an expensive effort, but it will a much less expensive effort if we act now.

I think that is critical to saving this planet.

It can be done in a way that grows jobs across our national geography.

I am really proud of California's leadership in this deal.

It is quite correct, though, we can't win this global battle without the rest of the world.

I want to thank Mr. McKinley for partnering with me and coauthoring my bill the USE IT Act on carbon capture and utilization.

I will be reintroducing the Environmental Justice Act of 2021, which is with Senator Booker, with codify parts of that Executive order that you just mentioned, 12898.

I want to start by acknowledging the calls of my friends Mrs. McMorris Rodgers and Mr. McKinley for bipartisanship on this panel.

After 4 years of constantly defending attacks on clean energy and the environment, this hearing establishes a night-and-day difference in priorities in leadership on climate and the environment.

President Biden's Executive order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad takes important steps towards strengthening our environmental justice and public health protections.