Our job is to serve the people of this country.

If I could interrupt for just a moment. I am going to Chair this Committee for just a little while.

I have had the privilege of representing Delaware, which is about 90 minutes away by train from Wilmington to Washington.

This summer's widespread extreme heat has been really staggering, including a month... of temperatures over 110 degrees in your own city of Phoenix.

I am going to telegraph a pitch. I have a couple of questions to ask of you.

That does not diminish at all the importance of this hearing, so we are deeply grateful for your participation.

We really need to work on interagency cooperation between all of our Federal programs.

We need to break those patterns that we have been locked into and be strategic and thoughtful how we do so.

I think agencies like NOAA, like the CDC and others can be very helpful in building heat literacy at the local level.

As I have said more than a few times in this room, climate change is an issue we can no longer afford to ignore.

Both of you mentioned the PROTECT Program that we created in Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.