Eleanor Holmes Norton

This hearing boils down to a made-up war on energy and an attack on evidence-based policymaking.

The United States has grown to be the world leader in liquified natural gas exports in less than a decade.

Updating the Nation's permitting policies based on modern information and data is just good government.

Outdated data leads to outdated policy.

Earlier this year, the Committee's Democratic staff released a report detailing how some of the most authoritarian governments in the world paid nearly $8 million to President Trump through his businesses while he was Commander-in-Chief.

This is something that has to be prioritized with a response in the bilateral relationship with the PRC.

We have to actively be investigating those as crimes, and they have to be a priority for investigative resources.

The Constitution framers were certainly concerned about foreign powers using bribes and payments to undermine the American democratic experiment.

One of the many benefits of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the surface transportation portion of which I helped to shape as the then-chair of this subcommittee, is that it provides funding for communities of all sizes.

In my district, the District of Columbia, 151 new transportation projects were started in the first 2 years of the law alone.

Transit is critical to supporting access to opportunities for all Americans, especially those who are dependent on it.

I appreciate that we will hear testimony today from Todd Morrow, the executive director of a rural transit system, about the value of transit to rural communities.

I appreciate the need to invest in rural America to ensure the safety of roads and bridges.

I hope that we, as a committee, continue to work together to pass infrastructure investments that improve the lives of all Americans.

Transit is a lifeline for an elderly resident who relies on the bus to get to a doctor's appointment.

For an elderly resident who relies on the bus to get to a doctor's appointment, transit is a lifeline.

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

To respond to the comments from my friend from Maryland. The National Park Service has a maintenance backlog of $23 billion, including $2 billion in the District of Columbia alone. The National Park Service does not have the money to…

Right now, Republicans across the country are advancing dangerous bills that would bar virtually all discussion about race and gender differences in American history and society.

These book bans and anti-free speech efforts are designed to be intentionally vague to target teachers.

Democrats invested in students' safety in the classroom during the pandemic, and we are investing in recovery efforts in the aftermath.

In contrast, House Republicans are focused on cutting education funding, banning books, and censoring curriculum.

This is an opportunity to invest in our schools and allocate the resources needed to address longstanding inequities in education exacerbated by the pandemic.

I am deeply concerned by the rise of book bans and increase in efforts to diminish free speech, especially in the classroom.

Not only is placing a nuclear reactor in the U.S. Capitol Complex a danger to national security, it is a danger to my constituents, here in D.C., in this densely populated city.