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Thank you, Chairman Tonko.

I agree with you on the smaller cities. Obviously a state like mine has all small cities and towns...

I support the use of that for right now, but we know there are test cases in the courts and others.

I would like to ask you about the southwest border crisis where FEMA is now in helping to identify and assist in sheltering and processing centers.

FEMA is exceedingly important, and their role in supporting our State and local partners in responding and recovering from a historic number of disasters facing our nation.

FEMA's mission is helping people before, during, and after disasters.

We have a big gap here.

We need to keep the Federal interest focused on providing a connected network of roads and bridges to ensure that all communities and the economy can thrive.

Regulatory certainty and efficiency in the regulatory process has got to be a part of this bill.

Passing a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill continues to be my top priority as the Ranking Member in this Committee.

The out-of-control spending proposed by President Biden will leave a mess that our children and grandchildren will have to clean up and pay for.

Something told me, wait a minute. Pause. Hit the pause button. Something's wrong. You can't have this many people split to where they want to go to war with each other.

The filibuster is a critical tool. And there is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.

The self-appointed prime minister of the United States Senate, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, says he will never, ever agree to filibuster changes no matter what that means for Biden’s agenda or what it means for his own constituents.

I'm so pleased to understand that we have a person sitting in the White House that understands legislating. Understands how Congress works and should work and understands that basically, we've got to represent the people that we represent.

I support what the President did today. From what I heard, OK, what he's doing on executive order. Now, there's an awful lot of the things he talked about, but the executive order says, ghost guns should not be allowed to be legally made…

January 6 changed me and I was very clear with everybody. I never thought in my life, I never read in history books, to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is Washington D.C., our Capitol by our…

No more killing the filibuster.