Eleanor Holmes Norton

The Build Back Better plan would electrify various forms of surface transportation.

This is an important hearing, and we have heard of breaches of both the private and the governmental sectors.

Thank you for bringing attention to this important issue at today's hearing, 'Examining Equity in Transportation Safety Enforcement' and for offering the chance to share input.

I want to thank each of our witnesses, in particular, for your very helpful testimony today.

Targeting resources is necessary to ensure that we actually move the needle on traffic safety.

I championed to prohibit racial profiling, known as section 1906, that has been a great success.

It is crucial we understand how, and against whom, traffic safety laws are enforced.

We must ensure that Federal employees are among those that get some priority in a vaccination.

Just the issues discussed here, transportation issues, have disproportionate effects on our Nation's Capital which I represent.

So, let us understand what we were talking about, and let me be the first to admit that every administration has had problems with people coming illegally into this country and we still have that problem, and it is incumbent upon us to…

We need security. But don’t let the domestic terrorists win in this case.

The gentleman has yielded, and I certainly concur with him. I am very pleased that this bill comes out now, in the season of climate change, where we have seen increased disasters in our country. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of…

As is often the case, it is difficult for Congress to stay ahead of the technology that it must regulate. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore…

I very much appreciate that correction of his views then.

Until the D.C.--until the D.C. Statehood bill passes.

But we find that FERC, the regulatory agency, falls short of fully enforcing its obligation. That's the problem.

Yes, but you speak about the restoration being completed within two years. Let me give you another example...

Now, nobody on this committee is against natural gas. Natural gas is an important step to be taking now in the fight to alleviate climate change.

I'm going to ask the chair to look into the matter of what the Congress can do to make sure that universities do, in fact, cooperate in the future, because I don't see any reason for that.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I thank you for this hearing. I think it's very important that we get beneath the surface, and this hearing is doing that.

I'm particularly interested in students, because I recognize that they present a major challenge.

Are you concerned that college students who live on off-campus will be undercounted, and what do you think we should be doing about it?

Amtrak is essential to our country, it has its hub here in the District of Columbia that I represent.

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…