Thank you, Chair Warren, for this important hearing.

We are looking at 9 feet of sea level rise in Rhode Island by the end of the century.

I have been hollering at the Army Corps for years about your flood and coastal damage reduction fund.

I want finito. I want it stopped. I want some balance.

Mr. President, I object to the Senator's request for the reasons that I have previously stated. As the Senator from New York acknowledged, on July 2, President Biden announced that he ``strongly supports'' the recommendations put forth by…

Thank you, Madam Chair, for calling this very important hearing.

Sometimes we talk about these issues in terms of public policy, and it's good to be reminded this actually impacts people's lives in a very profound way.

If that information is breached, it's a lot more problematic and more concerning than if your password is breached, because you can change your password, but you can't change, for the most part, you can't change your face.

I think it also requires us to regulate how private companies can provide this technology to law enforcement.

Mr. Speaker, our infrastructure is stuck in the 1950s, and it doesn't have to be this way. It is long past time for America to bring our bridges, roads, public transit, and water infrastructure into the 21st century. The INVEST in America…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise in support of the INVEST in America Act, which will help rebuild America's infrastructure. I especially rise today in strong support of my amendment and other…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak in strong support of the INVEST Act, which contains nearly $19 million in funding for three infrastructure projects in Rhode Island's Second District. This legislation will improve roads in Westerly and…

We don't allow prior restraint in this country of the press. It should not be--

No facts underlying that assertion?

I think it's safe to say that all of us were very upset when we read the reports detailing how in former President Trump's Administration the Department of Justice surveilled not only journalists, not only Members of Congress, including a…

It's foolish to believe that anything is going to change. In fact, that, I believe, is the definition of 'insanity'--of doing the same thing, expecting a different result.

It is not just a First Estate concern, and it is really a self-regulation concern.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.