This Committee continues delivering bipartisan solutions for all Americans, thanks to the leadership of Chair Graves.

Due to persistently high inflation, Americans continue to struggle to pay for food, clothing, gasoline, and other necessities with their hard-earned dollars.

Frankly, these requested increases seem a little ill-advised and unjustified after the years of record spending that we have had.

In the recently passed FAA reauthorization bill, passed by this House unanimously in a bipartisan way, it included the Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act.

Effectively, this rising debt of the Federal Government will put increased pressure on Congress and this committee to fund infrastructure improvements through the general fund.

Frankly, these requested increases seem ill-advised and unjustifiable after years of record spending.

I want to be clear, I agree that, and I don't want to be perceived as saying that we shouldn't make investments because it's going to cause inflation.

The Department needs to rethink its entire approach to prosecution.

I have concerns about whether the Department, under your leadership, is doing the absolute most it possibly can advance these goals.

We must ensure that regulatory burdens and confusion over guidance are removed in order to efficiently administer infrastructure programs.

Every day in courtrooms around the country, including St. Louis, prosecutors who ultimately report to you are continuing to disproportionately prosecute, disproportionately, Black and Brown people.

When you look at everything that has been done under this administration... it became way too expensive and ancillary things added to it.

FEMA's role is critical. We have had recent flooding and tornadoes in my district, and it is important for FEMA to work quickly and closely with the State emergency management agencies and local responders.

FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program, originally created to help homeless Americans, has now become a program to pay for illegal foreign nationals residing in our communities and in our cities.

This lack of transparency, it is not OK.

I would like a commitment from you that you are going to be transparent and provide the methodology to the American public.

Duplication of benefits drives me crazy because I watch our Federal Government be incredibly inefficient.

Now, in the wake of one of the deadliest fires in United States history, a supplemental request for additional disaster funding comes with strings attached to Ukraine?