Aligning the student loan cap for accredited flight education and training programs with the real costs associated with these programs will provide equitable career access to everyone.

We urge other members of this Committee to join them in this effort.

This commonsense proposal closes the pilot workforce gap by letting prospective pilots access the same loan opportunities available to students at traditional 4-year schools.

This is not just about extending his presidency, but protecting democracy. While this is a decision for the president and the first lady, I hope they will come to the conclusion that I and others have: President Biden should not be the…

thankfully, has shelved those plans to toll our Oregon commuters.

the last time you were before this committee, we discussed the shortsighted--in my opinion and many others--tolling plans in Oregon.

Well, I like the world of possibilities, for sure, so, I look forward to working with your office on this.

And with the chairwoman sitting behind me from Utah, we are talking about permitting reform.

This legislation aims to streamline the Federal permitting process by introducing a permit by rule system.

This needs attention.

This effort builds on similar pieces of legislation that this Committee has advanced this Congress.

Thank you, President Biden, the Department of Transportation, and yourself personally for the work you have done.

I cannot tell you what it means to the people of the south coast to have hope that we will have jobs again.

It is difficult for me, when I hear remarks, Dr. Redfern, where you say, we can save these whales if we would just do something like get all the boats off the ocean.

I have 190 days left in Congress, so I have been spending time on issues that bring people together rather than divide them.

These things aren't going to get enacted into law, they are not going to make a difference to the American people. It is a distraction, it is a sideshow.

I find this hearing very meaningful.

I ask unanimous consent to grant floor privileges to my interns for the following days--these are the days that they are having their shadow day where they accompany me around the Capitol--Mimi Papathanasopoulos on June 18, 2024; Liliana…