Last Congress, myself and Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, we founded the Blue Collar Caucus.

My primary and sole objective is exactly that, putting as many people to work in good-paying energy and manufacturing jobs as possible.

I want to say to Mr. Hudson, I look forward to working with you.

Bills like this are so critically necessary and important because there is a lot of folks in parts of the country, including my district, who want to have opportunities for jobs where they may not go to college.

I look forward to working closely with you. I respect you, Mr. Chairman, and I trust you.

The challenge, which is really the opportunity of our time, is ensuring that we have a diverse and trained workforce.

I am truly excited to hold this morning's hearing focusing on HR 1315, the Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act.

I represent a district in southern California that includes areas like Compton and Watts, where not everybody is going to college.

All of you have ignored this transition. All of you.

We were not always able to truly help the very same individuals that this bill was designed to reach.

I really want to, once again, welcome our witnesses. You brighten up the room here.

I certainly want to thank you, Madam Chair, and I want to thank all the witnesses who have appeared before this subcommittee today.

During Roll Call Vote number 81 on H.J. Res. 37, the Buck Amendment, I mistakenly recorded my vote as Yes when I should have voted No. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended. The amendment was…

To answer your initial question, yes, the equal access and gender identity rule, which went into effect in 2016...

I want to ask Ms. Hung, you've been sitting here patiently, remarkably, listening to a lot of discussion between experts.

One aspect of the ACA that I like is insurance companies must now spend at least 80 percent of their premium on actual healthcare as opposed to other kinds of pay for CEOs and also for an increase of their profits.

I want to--as I recall, when this Affordable Care Act was passed, there were millions of Americans who were without health insurance totally.

Since the Act was passed, approximately 20 million Americans have gained health coverage, including over a million in my State.

I have been a Member of Congress for quite--for, as you have, for over 26 years, and this is my first time being a member of this subcommittee.

Ultimately, black and brown Americans have benefitted the most from the ACA's Medicaid expansion program.

While I strongly condemn white supremacy and white nationalism, my position remains unchanged. Anything short of censure is shallow. Steve King has made a career of making racist statements. That is the only thing he is known for and this…

I just want to make a note, Mr. Chairman, that we are moving into an area where diversity in Government contracting really means something.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this markup today examining Public Private Partnerships for Federal Energy Management.

I want to, again, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I fully support the objectives of both the energy savings performance contracts, or ESPCs, and the utility energy savings contracts, UESCs.