John Garamendi

There is going to be a lot of discussion about this problem. We have already spent several hours at it.

We urge the Committee to take up this legislation as soon as possible.

When I met with President Biden in the White House in October, I learned that he too held a vision for a 24-7 supply chain.

The status quo is not sustainable.

When the supply chain fails, it hits our community first, and it hits us the hardest.

An 80,000 shortage of truck drivers, that is a grave concern.

I think it is important to put some priority on the lock system on our--in our ports.

The problem has been created by the military not prioritizing this and, frankly, Congress not prioritizing.

We need a 5-year plan, so that we can plan, so that we can carry out... the MILCON piece of it.

The issue of vaccines and vaccination mandates are certainly on the table.

The vaccine mandate has resulted in a vaccination rate of 96 percent among Active Duty service members.

And it is really not a question, it is a request that I would ask our committee to enforce...

I want to thank the witnesses for their statements, all of which are appropriate, all of which speaks to--all of your statements speak to the necessity...

I am not one to be quiet. There are times when I am not one to be nice. And I am kind of feeling to be in an ugly mood today.

There is a lot more to be said here about this issue of coordination.

And I want to be clear that FEMA assisted many, many households, and we are incredibly thankful for the assistance that comes from the Federal Government, but there has to be a solution that looks to permanent help for folks as opposed to…

Part of the problem is it is by the book, and several of us have talked about maybe there ought to be a few efforts to move beyond the book, the rules and the regulations and flexibility there of those rules and regulations.

The article speaks about the human element of the disaster and the long, long process that this particular family--and, unfortunately, it is not a unique situation, but it is one in which it exemplifies the complexity and the difficulty…

As climate disasters increase, a last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government's obligations to the displaced.

We are going to have to figure this out.

Your attorneys over there need a little poke for them to look at explicit things written by Congress that say this goes into law, it is self-executing, you don't screw around with it for 3 years.

And the fact that, as Rick also mentioned, we have things that were supposed to be self-executing, pretty damn clear in the law.

I hope this isn't back to the good old days of tombstone mentality at FAA: We will move on secondary barriers when some domestic terrorists take over a plane and something really horrible happens.

H.R. 4996 would finally empower the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to crack down on aggressive retaliatory practices.

Thank you for sponsoring H.R.4996, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021.