Mike Bost

I have no further speakers. I just urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I just want to encourage all of my colleagues to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage everyone to support this piece of legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Madam Speaker, I encourage all my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage all my colleagues to support this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage my colleagues to support this bill. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the former speaker because of his experience in small business and running a business for a majority of his life. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from West Virginia (Mrs. Miller).

I want to thank all the Members who were involved in moving forward with this legislation, especially Chairman Takano, and I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

Furthermore, China's state-owned and state-subsidized manufacturers should not have access to American tax dollars.

Where does the modernization of U.S. locks and dams fit into President Biden's infrastructure strategy?

I actually myself am one of the few Members of Congress that grew up in a trucking family.

I have been working across trying to address the problem of shortage for truck parking in Congress by leading the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act.

It is the hours of service, and it is the electronic logbooks that are putting us in situations.

Government has to get involved. Government, Congress, you have to help by passing something like Representative Bost's bill.

You know, recently the Federal Highway Administration released results of a 2019 Jason's Law survey, which examines truck park shortages nationwide.

I think part of our job as Congress is to find a way to bring back that confidence of people to ride the train, to ride the buses.

Truckers don't stop. So they should be moved, elevated up to be right behind these frontline workers to get this vaccination.

I don't know how we make them comfortable to do their job.

Congress can help address the truck parking shortage by enacting the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act.

Reinstate the per diem tax deduction for employee drivers. Let them deduct their meals while out on the road again.

Drivers still worry about how they are going to get the vaccine while they continue to work.

Repeal the overtime exemption for employee drivers. I have been asked by legislators what would be the result of this. The result would be truckers would finally be paid for the time that they work.