John Garamendi

I aim to close this loophole in WRDA 2022.

I bring this to your attention, and I want to urge you to fully implement this in a comprehensive view of the Sacramento River flood control system.

If that is the case, we must correct it.

President Biden's Executive Order 14005, ensuring the future is made in all of America by all of America's workers...

I consider this to be a major problem for all the reasons stated by the members.

I want to put on the record that the classified hearing will be taking place as soon as we get some clarity from the Navy and from the Department of Defense.

There is a question of legal responsibility here that will become part of the future hearings and part of the work of this committee.

I would point out to all the committee that we have not yet completed the appropriation process for the current year, let alone for the coming year.

I do not want another year to go by without the NDAA providing the specific authorities and money necessary to resolve this issue.

You brought this to the attention of the committee early on. It was at the Reagan Defense Forum that we did set up a meeting with the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations, at your request and your leadership for the…

Today we are here to talk about the Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

I intend that this issue be taken up in the next year's NDAA, the work we are now commencing.

We particularly appreciate the efforts of Congressman John Garamendi, who has been a strong advocate in providing greater transparency for state intercity rail sponsors during the surface transportation reauthorization process.

The bill also takes important steps to improve the quality of family life dealing with housing and child development centers. Notably, $517 million in this bill for PFAS in an effort to increase transparency and provide information…

There are technologies available that are able to cleanse water.

I want to give credit, actually, to Congressman Mike Rogers for his persistence and President Trump's vision to have a Space Force.

There appears to be a serious ongoing public health issue.

I call this meeting, this hearing to order, the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.

Congress and the Administration must address the ports issues or shipping delays may also negatively impact future trade negotiations with Southeast Asian trading partners.

This bill would be the first major update to federal law on global shipping since 1998 and aims to address the unfair playing field in which ocean shippers have been forced to operate.

One solution NACD encourages this Committee to advance is the bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act (H.R.4996), introduced by Representatives Garamendi (CA) and Johnson (SD).

The committee takes this issue extremely seriously, and we will be looking for short-term and long-term solutions.

We hope to move this bill expeditiously before the Christmas holidays. It may not solve the problem, but it will certainly be a wakeup call, or a slap across the bow of the ocean carriers and those that are operating in an unfair way, that…

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act... provides a mechanism in which the Federal Maritime Commission can operate to create a fair playing field.

Importing into the United States is not a right, but it is an opportunity, and it has to be an opportunity that is fair both to the importers and the exporters.