Mike Collins

What do you say to truckers that are just trying to compete? I mean, we've got high fuel prices, high insurance.

You are in charge of one of the largest agencies in the Federal Government. Your jurisdiction is over an industry in which you have zero experience.

Congestion on our roads is up. Trucks--right now drivers are out there. They spent 51 hours last year sitting in congestion.

I would--I'd say that maybe the new moniker should be King Joe based on the way he's acting without any authorization from the balanced government system that we designed by our Constitution.

You have been focused on racist bridges and bike paths.

We have had double the average, the annual average of train derailments this year, double the average.

I think we should hold back their economy, too. I'm very much America first.

America, during the last hearing, CEQ Chair Mallory, and CEQ by the way is an unauthorized agency created by the Biden administration, which has increased to a bloated budget and out-of-control agency.

They think it is even beneath them to have to even answer your questions or, as you see, even show up.

Well, I tell you what, I am here to tell you those days are over.

We will never get rid of drivers. There is always going to be a place for a driver at some point.

I am once again struck by the hypocrisy of this Administration's policy on domestic mineral production.

The Administration advocates for increased renewables and EV mandates, policies that will certainly speed up demand for the minerals needed to build them.

But what we have in this industry, in the transportation industry, is we have a Department of Transportation on the Federal level that is being run by someone that is pushing a woke, socialistic, left-wing agenda, and he has no idea what…

We have seen this Administration repeatedly choose to lock up lands with high mineral potential across our nation.

I hope this policy change was not political, but given this Administration's anti-mining agenda, I am skeptical.

I think that was pretty obvious there, Mr. Chairman. No, I am just joking.

I don't know about you but that is not the America I know. It is not the America that I want to live in.

the problem is that you have a Federal Government out there that is over-reaching into your life and in your business, a Biden administration that is bent on this left-wing socialistic agenda to change us and to change our country.

I don't know if you all noticed it or not, there is not a single Democrat sitting up here, not a single one of them that will come out here and see you face to face to understand one on one what you are feeling and what you are going…

I find it amazing every time we go west they announce that I am from Georgia.

They think you need to be cut back a notch or two.

Oversight is one area that we can really get our message out and put a face on what is going on.

Just like most everything in the Federal Government, the Federal Government is the problem.

You have an administration with an ideology that is way left wing and out of control.