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We need to improve Amtrak's national fleet. No doubt about it. I am certain, and I would love for the committee to hear your efforts, sir, to continue to support and strengthen the great work that is being done at Beech Grove and oppose…
The second thing is to make sure that we're proactively engaging project sponsors or would-be project sponsors.
The first is to make the processes simpler on the front end.
There are some profound policy considerations that will need to be addressed in terms of the long-term viability of the Highway Trust Fund.
We are talking about countries that are certainly rigorous in their labor standards and in their environmental standards.
I think that we will learn a great deal through this first-ever round of applications coming in.
We encourage local hire. It depends of course on the program.
I will give you just a few examples of the work we are supporting.
Every few days, we have another great announcement: Bridge repair programs that will help us move more goods more affordably and people more safely.
This is also, though, a moment of enormous opportunity, with reason for optimism.
Thanks to leaders like Chair DeFazio, Representative Young, and so many of you, we now have the most transformative transportation investment in most of our lifetimes.
One thing we have been working on with the Department of Energy is better sourcing of some of the elements that go into batteries, for example, ideally in the United States and, if not in the United States, then in geopolitically…
We do think that there continues to be a place for private investment.
Together, we have the opportunity to improve countless lives, support good-paying jobs, strengthen America's manufacturers.
Success means delivering good projects that improve the lives of your constituents.
Thank you, Chair DeFazio, for 36 years of extraordinary service, and to congratulate you on your upcoming retirement.
Nobody I know, certainly not me, thinks that all or even most Americans can easily afford electric vehicles.