We are grateful for Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Well, I appreciate that, and we introduced work together on the National Transit Workforce Act as well, and I was pleased to see the FTA stand up the training center.

I have to give accolades to Senator Chris Van Hollen because what he did not only was authoring the bill, he continued to have steady communications with the labor leaders and Maryland to ask them, 'How is it going?' 'Where are you at?'…

Yeah. Well, we are going to push them because the uneven implementation of this around the country is concerning, especially in light of the ongoing risks to transit workers.

Well, I appreciate that, and I understand from your testimony that right now FTA is relying on you, the ATU, to make determinations as to whether local transit agencies are in compliance.

I just want to make a mention of the Red Line in Baltimore. As we all know, this was a big priority of the Maryland delegation for a long time.

We are grateful for Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Wall Street banks spent the ensuing years lobbying to roll back safeguards we passed in the wake of that crisis.

Wall Street banks spent the ensuing years lobbying to roll back safeguards we passed in the wake of that crisis.

I was really pleased that we were successful at including a lot of those provision in the Bipartisan Infrastructure modernization legislation.

I certainly hope he will do that in partnership with his allies, the United States and others.

We were, of course, all alarmed by the images of the attacks on democracy in Brazil following Bolsonaro's exit.

I want to underscore some of the issues that had been raised by my colleagues.

These human rights abuses and the migratory outflows that stem from citizens fleeing these countries demand our full attention in cooperation.

Protecting environmental defenders is about much more than just the Amazon.

We must defend democracy when it is under attack around the world.

A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.

I really hope going forward... that people will not take our economy off a cliff by threatening not to pay our bills on time.