I urge the committee to establish a new grant program that specifically addresses the needs of wastewater infrastructure in financially distressed municipalities.

Investments in high-speed broadband will end the isolation facing millions of Americans, create more jobs, and help strengthen our economy.

This is a problem that can only be solved by increased federal investment.

Please be sure that deadlines like this one are not allowed to slip.

Thank you very much. And I want to thank Chairman DeFazio for inviting me to share my thoughts with you as the committee works to reauthorize the surface transportation programs, and to pass President Biden's American Jobs Plan.

We have the opportunity to pass the once-in-a-generation infrastructure package that will stabilize and modernize the Nation's economy, and put millions of people to work.

I urge the committee to support the bipartisan and bicameral solution to our Nation's infrastructure needs.

I support $55 million in funding for the program, and the creation of a quality assistance program to provide technical assistance, and help designees continue to meet the criteria of the program.

These challenges present an urgent need to repair and rebuild our roads, bridges, ports, and transit systems to create jobs, invest in local economies, and enhance the safety of our communities.

I think that as we address this issue, and we address it from an equity point of view, it is going to be important, looking at whatever kind of a highway funding program we put in to make sure that this is not being used as a mechanism to…

this may be something that, given the bipartisan support and interest in this committee in getting this shell corporation problem solved, should perhaps be done as a committee-wide briefing

the last topic is that Congress, on a bipartisan basis--much thanks to the leadership of Senator Crapo...

I think this referral policy is a mutually agreeable situation between DOJ and IRS where powerful special interests get to get away with things.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, very much, and thank the panel for their interesting and thoughtful presentations this morning.

The Inspector General is calling for a cultural change toward anticipating and preventing future attacks.

It`s about putting people back to work in West Virginia.

This is a values-based package. And he is not going to, we are not going to compromise on core values.

The president has been very clear with us, his team, he wants to get something done, which means reaching out across the aisle and looking for common ground.