Alan Lowenthal: “The draft of the bill before us today is an interesting and potentially promising tool to help address one of the big…”

I thank my colleague, Representative Cartwright, for introducing this important bipartisan legislation and working to build such an impressive coalition of support. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 7283, and I reserve the…

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I would like to emphasize how important a quick resolution of this process and a timely report will be to my constituents.

I represent the Port of Long Beach. I am the cochair with Randy Weber from Texas of the Congressional PORTS Caucus.