Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's a tough performance to follow. Mr. Secretary, it is a pleasure to welcome you back, sir, to T&I.
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Either the EV revolution is going to be made in China, or it's going to be made in America.
That is also under active consideration and part of what will be addressed in the rulemaking.
I don't want us to act as though we have no responsibility to do better this time in the 2020s.
If Federal dollars went into that exclusion, our view is that Federal dollars ought to go into something more fair this time around.
I understand, sir, there are some discretionary funds available to help fill those gaps.
Give us some assurance that equity will bend in our direction.
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.
The railroad crossing elimination program is one of the most timely and needed things that was in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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 got involved and stood with the UAW to save those jobs, and I'll always be with auto jobs being preserved.
The Safe Routes to School funding was an important part of how we were able to improve the way that many kids were able to get to where they were going.
This is about meritocracy. This is about putting meritocracy over the ideas of DEI and all these other criterias.
We will never ever pay ransom to terrorists or terrorist states.
Illegals currently, I would say, are going to cost the country just trillions and trillions of dollars in net.
When one side of the aisle has chosen to get rid of the idea of having a secure border, I don't think that syncs up with the majority of Americans.