We want to be with you. These are great platforms. We understand there's always a budget issue.

I look forward to hearing how MARAD is working to assure that all Federal agencies strictly apply mandatory cargo preference requirements to their programs.

Within 45 days of you being confirmed as the Secretary of the Department, this administration has halted border wall construction that was already funded by Congress.

I hope our former House colleague, FMC Chairman Dan Maffei, can share with us what resources he and the other Commissioners believe the FMC needs to right-size its enforcement of ocean shipping regulations.

When people sometimes ask me to name an unusual fun fact about myself, something that no one would quite believe would be true, I sometimes say that at a younger point in my life I had a chance to write and negotiate a four act parody…

Global threats, such as Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and Russia's expansion into the Arctic have greatly increased the importance of the Coast Guard to America's national security.

Funding phase 2 in this year's appropriations legislation is a national security imperative.

Thank you to all of you for your statements, and our opening statements that we talked about a number of issues.

I thank Chair Grijalva for bringing my bipartisan, bicameral bill to the floor. And I thank my Republican colleagues for supporting the same. H.R. 6201, the National Liberty Memorial Preservation Act, would extend authorization of the…

I also know that you are in favor of expanding bargaining rights because they have had very limited access to determine their plight and fighting for their rights.

I would be remiss in not thanking those who kept our planes flying, those who are building our planes during a pandemic.

I announced last year a commitment to the personnel of TSA to provide them with pay commensurate with their Federal colleagues throughout the Federal Government and also to provide them with collective bargaining rights.

We need to bring them into it.

NTEU supports the Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act (H.R. 2744), introduced by Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ)

I would appreciate us partnering in helping us access those grants in my district and around the country.

I hope our BPP Border Patrol officers would understand and continue to do their duty and not engage in political activities.

I am particularly concerned about the on-going threats to houses of worship in the African American community.

We need to get him out of the way.