I think it is important to rejoin the CPTPP, as it is now.

Exclusions should not be the normal course of business and should be time-limited, where they are provided, to spur the development of domestic capacity.

A 2010 report of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) recommended adopting private sector pension cost allocation methods for the postal account within the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF) to more accurately, more…

I want to share with my colleagues some information regarding the Reconnecting Communities Act, a bill that I have introduced today along with my colleagues Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Schumer…

I just think you--and Mr. Chairman, you and Senator Grassley, before he leaves--you fellows did great work, absolutely great work.

the Senate has now invoked cloture on the nomination of Brenda Mallory, President Biden's nominee to serve as the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. First, let me just say thank you. I want to express my thanks…

I think one of the smart things this administration has done early in its tenure is to make sure that people in neighborhoods across America can go to the federally qualified community health center and be vaccinated.

We are on the cusp of another transformational change in the way we not just build our roads, highways, and bridges.

I think of the States as laboratories of democracy.

We have a surface transportation system that is in bad shape, and we can do better than this, and we need to do better than this

we need to invest more in our transportation system, for sure, and that the Federal Government has a continued role to play.

we have the opportunity to address all of those, all of those

we need to replace per gallon fuel taxes with per mile charges, in some form or another.

I will be extremely concerned about any proposal that we adopt that allows for this kind of selective choosing of winners and losers and deliberate suppression of consumer choice toward electric vehicles.

I don't think that is a winners and losers contest that we should be in, and it is not a contest that I think we should allow the States to get into because of all the other collateral costs of suppressing the growth of electric vehicles.

I am sitting here thinking about Dwight Eisenhower and his leadership, which got us started on the interstate highway system.

I think the last thing is that a national pilot is definitely necessary if the Federal Government is going to engage in this activity.

Our concern is how do we help make sure that lower income families, at risk families, don't end up bearing an inordinate amount of burden?

the States are laboratories of democracy, and they give us the opportunity to find out what works and do more of that

the gas tax, and you know better than I do the political reasons why we can't just raise the gas tax, would prove that.

Our tradition in this Committee is to work across the aisle to work together, and we do that pretty well

Folks who ride transit around our country, whether it is Delaware, West Virginia, California, Des Moines, those are folks who are not going to be using the roads, highways, bridges.

action has to be taken if we are going to be successful in implementing a major and futuristic transportation infrastructure investment program.

we have the opportunity to provide leadership for the Senate, and I think for the Congress, in dealing with some of our toughest challenges

I have talked to a lot of Governors and a lot of State legislators, and I know you have too, but those who have in the last decade, not in the last 5 or 6 years, who supported increases in traditional user fees in their States have…