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Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you again to our witnesses for being here. I appreciate your work for the country very much.

Every day, people across our country read stories and hear news about how Washington is broken. However, the WRDA process is something that works.

Since 2014, Congress has passed a WRDA bill every two years. These have not only been consistent but also bipartisan.

This is one of the most important pieces of legislation that we do here at the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Well, thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate you holding this hearing today.

The climate crisis presents a significant challenge to everyone, not just a select few.

The U.S. is in the middle of flu season, which has the potential to add additional burden to already-stressed health care systems due to the ongoing pandemic.

The development of the first successful mRNA vaccines is a clear success story from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But don't think that we are just going to sit here and print money without a full accountability of where it has gone.

I also express my disapproval very quickly and that is what I am doing today.

I wrote the law. If--in the case of CDC, they were the delay to begin with, but to acquire testing, that falls in your lane.

Well, get to the others. I mean this there is all--a sense of urgency here. I just think that might have been thought of before we did this.

I hope you will think about that. This is alarming to me.

I get what you are doing. My question is this, what does this say to the innovative company that is out there that doesn't have the manufacturing capacity, and without us marrying them to a large manufacturing capacity, it is basically…

My suggestion in the future is that when you guys huddle inside the COVID team, try to get the Administration to refrain from making these proclamations until we have got the product, until we know who we are negotiating with.

The current Administration's Chief of Staff got it right in 2020 March, and he said testing is broken, testing is broken, testing is broken.

Well, will you confirm your understanding? This is a very, very important piece, when you have got companies that don't manufacture tests.

The Federal Government could use several mechanisms, including competitions with prize awards and grants.