I just want to reinstate my strong belief that everybody in this country deserves decent, affordable housing.

I represent a district that includes much of the Research Triangle Park, the largest research park in the United States.

We also discussed challenges facing the region, including the need for more early education STEM opportunities to strengthen the talent pipeline and the growing affordable housing crisis.

Thank you for holding this hearing, Chairwoman Stevens, and thank you to all the panelists for joining us today.

We determined that three key ingredients that have contributed to the Triangle's success are local business community buy-in, connections to universities, and an environment conducive to start-ups.

Thank you, and thank you to the Ranking Member for holding this very important hearing today.

It was created to avoid the brain drain from our institutions of higher education, including our HBCUs.

The Triangle now is an ecosystem of hundreds of companies, government agencies, academic institutions, startups, and nonprofits.

I think there's a huge opportunity for K through 12 educators to partner with the private sector.

I do believe that one of the initial catalysts for TCSA was focused on asbestos cities.

Yes, I do believe that.

I will have to get you that timeline.

Look, last year Congress provided $25 billion in emergency rental assistance.

It means investing in our electrical grid and building more resilient transmission.

Under my leadership EPA would do everything in its power to hold responsible parties accountable for environmental degradation, and return land to safe and productive use for communities.

This plan is a transformational investment that puts working people first and will help ensure we reduce pollution and help create good quality jobs.

They have no clue where that $46.6 billion in aid is, or how it is being used. This is an abject failure by the Biden Administration.

It is ironic that we are here today to discuss another bad Democrat housing proposal when we really need to be focused on cleaning up the Biden Administration's latest mess.