Joe Courtney

I hope that we can determine guidance to help OSHA be more--to more effectively protect workers.

I mean, it is not like you can get inside there and start leafleting, you know, people or, you know, getting captive audiences for organizing.

Isn't this an issue our committee should consider?

We need to do far more to ensure that workers can come home to their families in the same condition that they left in the morning.

We have been telling you about this for years.

I think that is how the U.S. can preserve deterrence and keep the peace in the region, even with this tremendous uptick in Chinese A2/AD capability.

The B-52s being dispatched from Guam, I think, sends a very clear message that an ADIZ does not give one the right to regulate others' freedoms in that airspace.

I think we have seen a very regrettable approach from China in terms of how they rolled out their Air Defense Identification Zone [ADIZ] in the East China Sea.

I think there has been some good information that we have elicited from today's hearing, and I am sure there will be more follow up with the agency.

I also think it is important that we recognize, you know, that chart over there, as well, which is that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who I think are prepared to contribute to this country.

Again, I want to thank the witnesses. This has been a very, I think, healthy, somewhat adversarial or--at times, but that is the way our system is set up.

I appreciate that clarification.

Thank you again for your interest in these very important developments.

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