I got involved and stood with the UAW to save those jobs, and I'll always be with auto jobs being preserved.

We know that that personal net worth cap puts many business owners of DBEs in the position of being, as one business owner said to me, too big to be small for Federal purposes, but too small to be big and grow the way that you're supposed…

Had there been more opportunity to respond to Representative Stauber, I would have mentioned the work that we are doing to onshore, reshore, and friendshore the supply chain for electric vehicle batteries.

I've always advocated that businesses need to do more to invest in their own communities.

President Biden has made investing in our manufacturing base and strengthening our supply chains a priority during his administration.

Not only is that false; that is an insult to the qualifications of every air traffic controller.

I think you're probably a good American and you care.

People right now feel--I look at Durham Report, and I called on the FISA violations. There's millions of Americans. It's like KGB but Durham Reports.

That is also under active consideration and part of what will be addressed in the rulemaking.

It begs the question, is our economy one that can ever be government centric when the stats seem to show otherwise?

It's the beginning of a conversation. It's going to take a while to figure out.

this is about meritocracy. This is about putting meritocracy over the ideas of DEI and all these other criterias.

There are others who believe that we should force Americans to be in the technology of the past forever, and then there's this administration, which recognizes that the world is moving to EVs, with or without us.

I don't want us to act as though we have no responsibility to do better this time in the 2020s.

I think it's a great question. And maybe another area it turns out we have something in common is a belief that we ought to be paying more attention to materials, the sourcing of pavement, the durability of pavement.

Either the EV revolution is going to be made in China, or it's going to be made in America.

The markets would not allow that.

That is nonsense, Representative.