With your partnership, we can keep this momentum going, we can deliver good projects for more communities, and we can build and rebuild our transportation systems to meet the 21st, and even 22nd, century needs of Americans.

I remain concerned about the slow pace at which the Department is distributing IIJA funds.

Thank you for hosting this wonderful, very important Committee meeting.

I thank the chairman for yielding me time. I have an amendment, Madam Chair, in this en bloc. I rise today in support of my amendment which would provide a fully offset and fully paid for 67 percent funding increase for investigations of…

Last month, the House approved the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 by a very strong, bipartisan vote of 387 to 26.

This legislation provides some critical aviation safety enhancements.

Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations present numerous operational and economic advantages.

I would argue we haven't even done anything, in many respects, since many of the children currently in foster care were even born.

It is never too late to do the right thing.

I have got a couple of bills, the Helping Hands for Families Act, which I am sponsoring with Congressmember Carol Miller.

This could very well be one of the most important hearings we have for a long time.

You should have done better, sir. You should have done better. Because you didn't, people have suffered.

I think one of the worst things that happened in the COVID era is that our own government deliberately withheld information from us.

As a scientist who is supposed to follow facts, do you regret the fact that your 'work' was used to censor your fellow scientists?

Do you regret being part of this effort, this propaganda effort?

They are blatantly disregarding the law that this body passed, the Senate passed unanimously.

It is wrong to censor and lie to the American public.

The propaganda involved in the origins of COVID-19 is astounding to me.