the safety of our nation's pipeline infrastructure is critically important to protect public health and the environment and our local economies.

I am hopeful we can again make this a strong bipartisan effort.

it is critical that we apply this knowledge to make all of our communities safer

Unfortunately, the draft language as currently written is inadequate in providing the much-needed updates to pipeline safety legislation.

It is critical that we take the steps and the lessons from these incidents and use them to strengthen our pipeline safety infrastructure.

the truth is that far too many of us have had direct experience with a devastating pipeline or storage facility incident

Unfortunately, we continue to see plans from some of my colleagues to cap services or to block the program.

It is critical that any proposed changes do not undermine the program's important role in our health care safety net.

This would undermine the fundamental principles of the program and I cannot express enough how damaging that would be to patients and my constituents.

reauthorizes the current nursing workforce development programs to continue nursing education at all levels

I am particularly pleased that two pieces of legislation I have worked on for a long time are also included in this discussion.