The failures we saw in January 6 were the results of a failure of leadership.

There is a marked difference, I want us to have the freedom, I want the security, but I want the freedom.

I never thought I would see anything as horrific as we saw in January.

If very small rural carriers ask me, 'Peter,' you know, 'how is this going to affect our bottom line?,' you are telling me I can say that you will be OK?

I am really concerned about rural America.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. I also thank the ranking member and the committee in its entirety for working on this bill together. It is a sign of bipartisanship, one that I can be proud of and we can all be proud of. Madam…

The American Jobs Plan is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for every part of our country.

The questions that have been asked have been excellent. I want to thank everybody, the Senators who came but especially the witnesses.

I was just there and spoke.

Infrastructure is no longer limited to our bridges, roads, and railways. Vermonters understand the importance of conserving our most natural infrastructure, from farmland to watersheds. Doing so is not just an environmental imperative in…

We have got to build safer, stronger, and sounder.

Vermont wants to make serious inroads in connecting every corner of the State.

I thank Chairman Scott for leading and for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. It has been more than five decades since the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, yet a woman still earns only 82 cents on…

If we leave them a world in which they will have to confront climate change and its consequences, we are truly bequeathing them a real debt, substantial lowering their standards of living.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real.

This debate was not driven by science but by a decades-long campaign of lies, distortion, and deceit funded by the fossil fuel industry.

In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry.

We have been treating scarce resources, our environment, our water, our air, as if they were free. But there is no such thing as a free lunch.