Eleanor Holmes Norton

there was no mention of the climate change that may be the cause of these increases, and the seriousness.

Then that should be in our bill then that we are working on that?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly appreciate this hearing. Very intrigued by what we are doing here today.

We are already paying the price for the elimination by President Trump and the Republican Congress in 2018 of both the office and the emergency funding that President Obama created to address outbreaks like the coronavirus we are now…

RFRA has been used as a justification even recently--Senator Ted Cruz, here in the House, Representative Vicki Hartzler--for attacks on the District's human rights amendment.

I particularly appreciate this hearing because my own district, the District of Columbia, is regularly targeted by the minority for its laws regarding the LGBTQ community.

I just want to cite for the gentleman from Georgia the extraordinary number of voters in his state, half a million, who were purged.

We know that some of that is true because Democrats took back this House last year.

My only regret is that our colleague, John Lewis, who, though not a member of this committee, would certainly be here today if he could.

I hope, particularly the witnesses who can give us perspective on what we have got to do now in renewing the Voting Rights Act, can talk about their own role.

purges that result in a person having to leave the voting place and come again, it seems to me, ought to be disallowed under our bill

I want to take a moment to thank the Members of this Subcommittee who have highlighted the critical needs of these programs.

I want to take a moment to thank members of this subcommittee who have highlighted the critical needs of these programs.

I certainly hope I am an original cosponsor of that bill. We want to stress alternative modes of transportation in our next bill.

We are dedicated to ensuring that taxpayers receive safe, high quality transportation and other infrastructure services at the best possible price.

It is just as critical to ensure that federal infrastructure dollars are invested in safe and cost-effective projects that serve the public interest.

This 50-percent reduction she indicated is particularly outrageous, to have a formula, you know, nobody got increases.

Representative Plaskett of the Virgin Islands has championed infrastructure investment in the Territories.

the Department of Interior has $17.3 billion in deferred maintenance and repair needs

The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recesses during today's hearing.

the National Park Service (NPS) has both the largest share of total deferred maintenance, approximately 75%

We finally got to 1968--Fair Housing Act--when there was the great tragedy of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't expect anything to happen.

I have an interest in railroads and trespassing, and the statistics that show that people are often killed by walking the railroads.

Mr. Chairman, this is an important hearing to be held.