Gary Palmer

I am really thinking, well, we are not trying to pick on FEMA. What we are trying to do is improve performance...

Oh, I go back to my opening comment about why we are even having a discussion about allowing China to play in our freight space, considering how we, I think, have been asleep at the wheel to a certain extent with them having control of the…

I go back to my opening comment about why we are even having a discussion about allowing China to play in our freight space.

Given what we have heard today, I am amazed that we are even having the discussion about doing business with China.

In California right now, there is a lawsuit that has been filed by minority group against the California Air Resources Board, because of the harm that it is doing to low income people. Since the effective date of California's greenhouse…

If you are going to spend money on infrastructure projects, whether it is a harbor or, you know, an interstate highway, build what you need 25 years from now, not what you need now.

Part of what brought this to mind was that Panama was able to take only 7 years from conception to completion on the Panama Canal expansion, while it would take the United States twice as long, sometimes three times as long to do projects.

I want to get back to the harbor issues and some of the issues that we have had over the years with the need to deepen harbors.

It seems to me it makes sense to look at a way to consolidate these agencies and not have to spend as much money and get more bang for the buck.

Some of my colleagues are rightly concerned over climate change, and I share some of their concerns in that respect, that whatever we are investing in, we need to take that into account.

The Opportunity Zone, which really is a Jack Kemp, I believe, idea, something he promoted decades ago, has now finally come to fruition.

I think a later report said we would average saving over 4,200 lives a year if just 90 percent of occupants wore seatbelts.

I think there is the safer, affordable fuel-efficient vehicles rule that is going to retain the 2020 model year standards, and they are estimating that that could save $500 billion in societal costs and save almost 13,000 lives.

I am concerned as the father of two girls and one son. My first daughter, I bought her what I called a rolling airbag because of concerns for vehicle safety.

I want to ask unanimous consent to enter a couple of things into the record.

My concern is what is going to happen is we are going to sit here and we are going to make these recommendations

My amendment is simple and straightforward. It would require that the committee include in its reports the cost of its recommendations on local economies.

I am a proponent of canine units, which--just the visible presence of a canine unit is a deterrent.

I was mayor of Phoenix, Arizona. So we had to run Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, one of the largest airports in America.

I think they need to be outside the building, as well as inside the building. Because just having them outside the building is a visible deterrent.

I think that should be one of your main points in arguing for an increase in the passenger facility charge.

The Texas Attorney General recently indicted four people as part of a vote fraud ring funded by the Texas Democratic Party. Under the new automatic registration scheme in California, they admitted to registering 25,000 ineligible voters…

What they have done is they have created regulations, and they say that it is black box technology.

This is an issue that has been brought up in other committees that I have served on.

What I always say is old is new again. We used to have parking strips.