The safety realities of this industry: every year currently over 5,000 people are killed in crashes involving large trucks on our roads.

Today's hearing is an opportunity for Members to learn more about the state of the automated commercial motor vehicle industry--what's happening now, what we might see in the future, and how these technological changes will impact public…

The size and reach of this industry: trucks move over 70 percent of the nation's freight by weight, and there are 13.8 million large trucks registered in the U.S.

The size of the workforce: in 2022, the industry employed 3.5 million truck drivers.

I echo the words of Vice Chair Collins and thank her for her tremendous work on this. A lot of work has gone into these bills. All three of them were reported unanimously out of our committee after a tremendous amount of work. To finish…

Comprehensive regulations and oversight of autonomous vehicle deployment will be required to create and preserve high-quality, family-wage jobs.

Well, here is the bottom line. Immigrants contribute to our economy.

I rise today in support of President Biden's nomination of Anna Gomez to be a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Americans need an FCC fully equipped to deliver affordable high-speed connectivity, strengthen local…

last month, the Gray and Oregon Road wildfires in Eastern Washington caused serious devastation and forced thousands of people to evacuate, including members of my family and members of my staff. While folks on the ground are still…

For instance, as Jews all over the world were celebrating Rosh Hashanah in September 2023, Donald Trump accused the Jewish people who did not support him in 2020 of voting to, quote, 'destroy America and Israel.'

If you make these threats, we're going to find you. We're going to track you down; we're going to charge you.

I want to say too that many members on this Committee, many members of the Western Caucus have come forward with ideas to improve our response to wildfires and improve the situation as it relates to our management of our forests.

These fires are becoming all too frequent, becoming all too often, and all too catastrophic.

It is symbolic of sometimes the walls that we run into in Washington, DC when we try to make substantive changes and improvements.

We have to be able to act as fast as the fire.

But hopefully, the majesty that we are witness to with the trees and the mountains and the waterfalls also gives us hope and inspiration to do the hard work and be persistent and to keep at our job so that we can make those improvements.

I want to say thank you to all of our witnesses here today for coming and sharing with us your experiences and your perspectives.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a joint letter from me, in my capacity as President pro tempore of the Senate, along with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, regarding the reappointment of Dr…