There is going to have to be a real spirit of compromise from Saudi Arabia.

You want to end the crisis? Stop economic warfare. Stop it.

It is why I included in my question a query as to who should be at that table, because that determines what the table talks about and what the result of that conversation is, I think an important expectation to set--a hopeful one--that we…

I think you are right to suggest it is not easy to predict what the Iranians are going to do, whether we are inside or outside of the JCPOA.

The Houthis are not monolithic, and while they, certainly, have drawn closer to Iran by necessity as this conflict has grown, there are elements of the Houthis that are uncomfortable with that that may provide us with some opportunity here.

This Congress, I will be reintroducing the Living Shorelines Act, which establishes a new federal grant program to support the construction of living shorelines.

I would just recommend to this committee and to others that are working on this, you know, that we take some time to make sure that we are offering a proposal here that prompts other entities to put increased resources into the pool.

It would be embarrassing if the amount of time it took to travel between our Nation's Capital and the city of Boston was the same as it takes to travel between those two major Asian capitals.

I'm at the point, you know, Anderson where I don't want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I'm sick of this being used as a political cudgel the issue of guns by Republicans and Democrats, I'd rather make some progress.

I do. Listen, the voters did their part. They put in charge of Congress majorities that support universal background checks. They put a president in the White House who wants to sign that bill. Now, it's up to us to deliver.

and my colleagues, there is a saying about Afghanistan: that we have turned the corner toward victory so many times that we are spinning in circles. During the beginning of my time in Congress, I went to Afghanistan to visit our troops and…

the border wall is a terrible idea, a waste of taxpayer money, an invitation to continue to seed these illegitimate fears of immigrants.

I think it's so important to be able to shift our spending away from disaster response to prevention.

10 of 11 congressional requirements connected to the construction of the wall were not fully addressed.

President Biden expanded support for vaccination-related costs by increasing the Federal cost share to 100 percent.

I spent about a month last summer trying to understand the emergency medical supply chain in trying to understand who from the Federal Government was doing what.

I just think we have to be as clear as possible with states as to what their obligations are and what their obligations aren't.

I do think it's an important question for us to answer as to whether it is state's responsibility to build up that, sort of, slack manufacturing capacity.

This is the subcommittee's first hearing of the 117th Congress, and my first meeting as chairman.

They worry about their ability to compete for Brick allocations, especially with these bigger jurisdictions putting together much larger applications.

we frankly have exacerbated this difficulty by not allocating a share of COVID dollars into the Brick account.

when you're only funding 14 percent, that's a disincentive to apply in particular for jurisdictions that don't have an established grant-writing operation.

In 2020, FEMA was only able to fund about 14 percent of requested demand for pre-disaster mitigation projects.

We're getting to the point where we hope there will be an adequate supply of vaccination, and we will be in the position of a deficit of demand.

What we`ve been engaged in really over the last decade has been nation-building.