I urge you to consider investments in proven workforce development strategies, including career and technical education (CTE) and apprenticeships.

I'm encouraged by your plans to craft robust infrastructure legislation to strengthen our communities and stimulate our economy.

By including these investments in a comprehensive infrastructure package, we will ensure that resources committed to our nation's infrastructure will be effective, building on established workforce development strategies to provide the…

We appreciate your consideration of these requests and look forward to working with you to ensure these items are included in the nation-wide infrastructure package.

one of my concerns from the 1647 reviews is that lessons learned need to be fed back into the requirements development process

We must maintain this commitment moving forward.

Thank you, Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves, for the opportunity to testify today.

that is a priority that I would like to get an answer to.

Thank you for holding this important hearing, the work that you are doing...

I certainly echo the words of the majority leader and the need for infrastructure investment.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the decision by the Corporation for National and Community Service, or CNCS, to close all State and territorial offices and replace them with eight regional offices. If this plan is implemented…

I hope you are going to be asking for the right resources to do that and we stand ready to support you.

Mr. President, I want to take a moment to join in the celebration of National Library Week. This year's theme, ``Libraries = Strong Communities,'' is fitting. Every day, our libraries help make our communities stronger and more vibrant, as…

Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 164. Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. McAdams The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment…

Well, I think the attorney general was completely off base in characterizing an FBI counterintelligence investigation as spying. He knows enough not to use those kind of high voltage terminology.

I was a bit disappointed, because, again, I would hoped he would have rose to the task and been much more faithful to his duties rather than appear to be coordinating with either implicitly or explicitly with the president.

It's a very highly charged word, spying. It has a negative connotation. And if you have any evidence of that, which he said he has none, well, then you might think about using it.

Thank you very much. It is not often that the distinguished ranking member on the EPW Committee gets to say he is from a bigger State and give his advice in those terms. I appreciate that we from Rhode Island were able to give him this…