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In my opinion, we are putting the cart before the horse by addressing this issue here in the Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions Subcommittee before the drug is descheduled.

We need to have wider inputs, not a limited, one-panel conversation, in order to move to a markup that will come to a good result.

We have conflicting State and Federal law that we have to resolve.

I want to go ahead and close, if we can, at this particular point, but before I do so, I want to thank all of our staff. It is so easy at times for us to get up here, and yet the legislation that gets introduced oftentimes is not just due…

I thank the gentleman from Alabama for his leadership on this particular bill. I urge the adoption of it, and I yield back the balance of my time.

In closing, I want to thank the gentleman, again, for his thoughtfulness on this particular piece of legislation. I know that he has worked with my previous colleague, now the Governor of Florida, Mr. DeSantis, and we have great bipartisan…

It is one of the best places to be in this institution and work on things that really matter to our communities.

This year's bill, this subcommittee wrote in a 50/50 required balance between rural and urban.

We owe these victims and their survivors, of course, not only our condolences, but some answers as to what happened and why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

Frankly, I am unimpressed by your budget request.

Instead of paying attention to the urgent reality that an unplanned closure of the Hudson Tunnel would be disastrous for our economy.

Your budget proposes FAA aviation safety cuts of $9 million, a 20 percent cut to the National Highway Safety Administration vehicle safety programs.

If a budget reflects values, it seems the Trump administration does not, unfortunately, share these priorities.

We really do need to understand that all around in this institution going forward, and I assure, you we plan to get the work done.

Those reports are simply are inaccurate?

May 1st you will have the much awaited notice?

These delays are very harmful, of course, to the suffering of the people in Puerto Rico.

I hope the notice will take a comprehensive approach to all-hazards mitigation.