Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I was not surprised, because he's had a very long line of this kind of rhetoric and of close association, not only in…”

I would like to thank subcommittee Chair Rick Crawford for holding this hearing on transportation regulations.

Mr. Speaker, today, I introduce the Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2026, which would make short-term disability insurance available to federal employees.

H.R. 8505 would provide FMCSA with better tools to root out unscrupulous actors, which are also harmful to consumers and highway safety.

H.R. 8505, the Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act, restores the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's authority to issue civil penalties against bad actors and enhances registration criteria.