The Lummi nation lost five members of their tribe to fentanyl overdoses in just one week.

The Lummi nation lost five members of their tribe to fentanyl overdoses in just one week.

for the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation I report favorably the following nomination list which was printed in the RECORD on the date indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the…

We cannot have a big league economy with little league infrastructure.

Cutting investment in infrastructure is not an option.

My personal preference would be to go with the 2010 recommendations of the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission...

Congress has repeatedly needed to use General Funds to continue federal support for surface transportation

Thanks. Our Washington State Constitution says gas tax has to be used for transportation.

Yes, that which legislatures codify, they can decodify.

Now, we have the third highest gas tax of any State in the country or so.

It is a huge issue facing women, as you just mentioned, especially since the Dobbs decision.

Communities are really, as you know, hit hard by that.

the Highway Trust Fund operated effectively for years based on the 'user-pay' principle

Today's hearing on the state of the Highway Trust Fund is an opportunity to discuss a critical responsibility that faces this committee.

We cannot have a big-league economy with little-league infrastructure.

I rise today to pay tribute to a true public servant and an icon of the Tri-Cities community. Last month, my good friend Karen McGinnis passed away. For 20 years, Karen served as the founding director of a critically important worker…

I have been down here all week, saying again and again that the only way that we are going to avoid a shutdown is with a CR that can get bipartisan support to quickly pass the House and Senate, and we have been working nonstop to pass that…

I come to the floor this afternoon to urge my colleagues to keep moving this bipartisan CR forward and remind them that this isn't the be-all, end-all of legislating this year. I really appreciate the efforts, including considering a…