I worry in this context that the steel-aluminum arrangement that you are working on gets proposed as an alternative and is used as a stick.

I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.

The reality is every day in this country, 120 people are killed by gun violence.

We cannot accept this as normal.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for joining us today. As you probably know, Rhode Island is the leader in offshore wind energy in the country, and there are several programs that DOT has port infrastructure…

I urge you to make sure that the administrative process is as rapid and robust, not rabid and robust.

Quonset State Airport is very critical both to commercial travel and our National Guard.

If they are trying to overthrow the government, they ought to be held to the same standard.

It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.

I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.

We are trying to electrify our transit system. We have a statewide system. I think we might be unique in the country.

the ATF has taken action to limit ghost guns. We passed my bill to ban ghost guns as part of the Protect Our Kids Act.

Unless we have a regional approach to issues of pollution, et cetera, we can't, literally, effectively control the quality of water.

It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.

the presence of a firearm makes an abuser five times more likely to take a partner's life than if no firearm was present.

The proposed Republican budget would slash $626 million from that program, would set it back tremendously.

I think not just an issue of cost-benefit analysis, it is also a moral imperative.

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death in children and teens in this country.