Political Quotes

Thank you, Ranking Member Visclosky. I have been working to provide our World War II merchant mariners the thanks they deserve. I would prefer to offer an amendment to the Defense bill which would have provided a token thank you, but it…

My colleagues and I in the Transportation Committee, both Democrats and Republicans, decided to address this injustice in May when we passed a bipartisan bill that included the provision to finally take the harbor maintenance trust fund…

The Panama Canal expansion is set to open next month, posing challenges for many of our Nation's ports. That is why it is more important than ever that our ports have the funding that they need to prepare for the future and stay globally…

I have stood here many times in the last few years with the same message to my colleagues: Let's take action on gun violence and save some lives. I have named horrible statistics on gun death, like young people in the United States are…