I thank Chairman Johnson, my always friend, for yielding. Madam Speaker, our country is experiencing an unbelievable crisis at our southern border. In August alone, the United States Customs and Border Protection encountered over 200,000…

This privatization strategy threatens the FAA's independent oversight over the aviation industry.

The proposal also sets the drone industry back at least a decade.

I will say that again: the apparent intention to privatize portions of the FAA.

will you withdraw the reprogramming request and work with Congress, work with labor, work with industry to develop a good-faith proposal that actually works for the aviation sector and the American taxpayer?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this timely hearing, and also the ranking member.

Full implementation of these requirements is essential to creating a safety culture at the FAA.

It is a great opportunity at this point in time to try to attempt to change the culture that has existed.

It truly is. And as you know, as you chair your subcommittee and hear, I'm sure, from far too many families about as the difficulties of childcare grow, the difficulties of being a fully deployable force like our United States Navy grow…

I thank Chairwoman Speier for yielding. I appreciate it. I rise today to talk about the childcare crisis facing our Nation, and by extension, our national economy. I rise today to share the stories from working mothers in my district, to…

We are here to support them, I certainly am, in terms of making sure that we are providing sufficient oversight to protect the public.

Rapidly expanding offshore wind will be critical to decarbonizing the power sector.

A study released last week estimated that achieving the Biden Administration's offshore wind goals would generate $109 billion in economic activity.

These investments would help create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs for blue-collar workers.

But to be clear, the economic benefits of offshore wind won't just accrue on the Coast, they will impact communities across the country.

Achieving the Biden Administration's goals will support 80,000 jobs by 2030, including good paying union jobs in construction, steel fabrication, welding, and many other fields.

Achieving this goal will provide clean power to ten million American households and avoid 78 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

Today we are going to discuss the growing potential of the offshore wind industry to power American homes with clean energy.