We can't ignore the concerns of those people. We have to take them seriously and treat them the way we want to be treated.

Did you have public comment on that guidance?

Which has not been implemented over at the Federal Highways sufficiently to make those projects go.

Agencies blow by their timelines.

To truly modernize our environmental review and permitting processes, we must actually amend the underlying statutes like NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act will provide critical funding to help communities implement and expand programs.

I think it's important for us to hear what agencies have proposed to CEQ, OMB, and FPISC to improve the permitting process as we continue our legislative efforts.

The CEQ guidance follows a trend of Federal agencies using guidance to try to force policy or regulatory changes outside the rulemaking process and without congressional authorities.

The CEQ guidance follows a trend of Federal agencies using guidance to try to force policy or regulatory changes outside the rulemaking process and without congressional authorities.

As the superpower of the world, we are reliant on China, Russia, and other foreign adversaries for far too many of our energy needs.

The CEQ guidance follows a trend of Federal agencies using guidance to try to force policy or regulatory changes outside the rulemaking process and without congressional authorities.

Did you have public comment on that guidance?

Which has not been implemented over at the Federal Highways sufficiently to make those projects go.

What is the statutory authority that you would move in this direction?

We have just got to press harder here because this is a national disaster.

Thank you, Chairman Carper, and thank you, Director Williams for being here.

These numbers are alarming and should be a wake-up call that if we throw caution to the wind and move too quickly toward EVs without strengthening our domestic supply chain, we will be forced to rely on China for decades to come.

When things get tough, man, you have got to depend on someone, it is going to be the U.S. or ain't nobody coming.