Joe Courtney

Again, given Chairman Powell's announcement today, I mean it really is more than high time for us to move out and create some parody in terms of lending costs for people with student loan debt.

Everybody I talk to that works in an emergency room says yes, it impacts you when you're always looking around to make sure no one is going to hit you.

Without Congress setting a deadline, it will take at least ten years for OSHA to get this thing out.

OSHA takes 10 years or more to issue a standard.

Thank you Chairwoman Adams, and thank you for again bringing H.R. 1195 onto this agenda again as Dr. Michaels indicated...

It would make the lives better of nurses and others who provide this important work.

Again, with no sort of early warning systems or measures in place, which OSHA had developed as voluntary guidelines for many, many years.

It is really, you know, way past time for us to become a full participant.

I think that in the 21st century our moral standing is affected by the fact that we are not a signatory to UNCLOS.

The U.S. Navy League and the AFL-CIO metal trades unions, whose members do such amazing work at our Nation's shipyards, also provided critical advocacy throughout this fight. Seapower's professional staff Phil MacNaughton, Dave Sienicki…

The tempo of antisubmarine warfare activity that the U.S. is collaborating with Norway has gone through the roof in the last few years.

We know how important it is to reopen schools.

The decision to reopen has to be based on science, and it has to make the health and safety of our students and our teachers and our staff and families the top priority.

As a national survey published on Monday found, 86 percent of the America's school principals said it is extremely important, that is in quotes, 'extremely important' to get additional funding so their schools can safely reopen.

Secretary DeVos and President Trump are threatening, are threatening, to strip funding from public schools that determine they cannot safely bring all students back into the classroom full-time.

Unfortunately, our Republican friends in the Senate have chosen, like the President, to hide from the problem and taking it to action.

We, obviously, as part of recognizing the First Amendment, recognize that the media has a role to play that is protected by the Constitution.

The HEROES Act does two things. Number one, again, it requires that the States basically reopen their exchanges for special enrollment period. And, number two, it extends a 100 percent subsidy for COBRA so that, again, people who are…

I just want to begin by saying I am surprised to hear my good friend, Mr. Walberg, disparaging or dismissing the value of the HEROES Act provision for State and local assistance.

If we know that we are going to aim to have our students come back to school safely, we have to change a lot of things.

We know that we cannot open our schools safely without these additional funds.

Without that additional funding, we know that other school districts, like the one you just talked about, will absolutely have to lay off hundreds and hundreds of educators.

Reducing staff is really, isn't it the exact opposite of where we should be headed if we are trying to reduce class size and accommodate social distancing which CDC and all the public health officials are advising?

There is no way to make up for submarines that were not built, but the impact of the coming trough can be mitigated.

The Navy's force of SSNs is projected to experience a valley from the mid-2020s through the early 2030s.