The budget for the Navy... doesn't seem to be enough. It will never be enough to build the fleet necessary.

We do not have in place today the fleet, the ships, the vessels, the personnel to sustain ourself.

The bottom line of this is if we develop a National Maritime Security Program that uses the Jones Act fleet, makes them militarily useful, along with the current MSP program, we could do this at a fraction of the cost, and those ships…

The tanker program is a good start, but it is not even a sufficient start, just good to get started.

I strongly support the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022, and I would like to thank the chairman and the ranking member, also Mr. Carbajal and the minority team for putting together a good piece of legislation. This bipartisan…

Myself and other Members of the Committee have noticed that global investment in developing technologies that decrease the noise footprint of airports and commercial aircraft is increasing.

This is not a concern of the distant future but this is a concern now and will certainly be in the days ahead.

I strongly support the Department's transition to nontactical electric vehicles.

It's an important part of our work.

You've correctly identified a set of problems and we will-- we will be pursuing that set of problems.

I will point out that the administration's policy is buy America. Make it in America.

I applaud the Army for its recently released climate strategy that seeks to transition our tactical fleet away from a sole reliance on fossil fuels.