Questions from Hon. Gary J. Palmer to John Benish, Jr., President and Chief Operating Officer, Cook-Illinois Corporation, on behalf of the National School Transportation Association.

I think it is important to know how many of these fatalities were the result of people going around the bus as opposed to the bus actually running over the child.

I will pay the extra cost for a loaf of bread or a bottle of water, whatever, if it saves the life of a kid.

I think we may need to take a look particularly at the State level for those of you who are involved with the State legislature, as the Honorable Ms. Fulton and Mr. McLean, that the penalties ought to be much more severe for going around a…

Questions from Hon. Gary J. Palmer to Kristin Poland, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Office of Highway Safety, National Transportation Safety Board.

That is incomprehensible to me that that many people are that stupid or that unconcerned about the safety of the kids on that bus.

I appreciate what you are trying to do and I appreciate the fact that you are an engineer...

I thank the gentleman from Illinois, who is also a good friend, for the work he is doing on this, trying to bring some transparency to what is really going on here. There are numerous reasons that mandating paper ballots isn't workable…

My colleagues on the other side continue to offer radical and unworkable policies to revamp our election system. Security risks do exist within our ballot boxes, but this bill is not the answer. This bill will just add to the existing…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 92 will not be offered…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 599, strike line 3 and all that follows through line 17 (and redesignate accordingly). The Acting…

My amendment would strike the section that allows payments to go towards the Paris climate agreement. Most importantly, it would allow President Trump to follow through on his plan to withdraw from the agreement. Just a few months ago, it…

I would like to point out that the United States has led the world in reducing carbon emissions, and I would also like to point out that even former Secretary of State John Kerry, in 2015, stated, if we somehow eliminated all domestic…

I want to address something Ms. Holmes Norton brought up about some of these older buildings in Washington.

I just think that has got to be part of the discussion when we are talking about reducing our overall energy costs.

We are leading the world in reducing carbon emissions.

Just to clarify the record, we are not suggesting that the United States not reduce its carbon emissions.

Natural variation is having a greater impact on climate change than carbon emissions.

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

But as you start to rebuild and the cleanup, I think we ought to approach it like an engineering company where we would pay 20 percent upfront to get the contractors on the ground, stage and everything, and then you pay the invoice after…

If you spend the money on the front end, you save a whole lot more on the back end.

I think that is where we need to be is part of our overall approach to this is, in terms of mitigation, is building resiliency into the structures.

Almost from the day that I have been elected to Congress, I have looked forward to the opportunity to honor my wife's great-grandmother. She was able to vote in the 1920 election. Prior to that election, in Boston, they distributed sample…

One of the things I think we could do, if I may continue for a little bit, Madam Chairman, is working with administration is, on a situation like this, have a one-stop-shop where you get the agencies that have got to give you the permits…

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