This is also, though, a moment of enormous opportunity, with reason for optimism.

We are talking about countries that are certainly rigorous in their labor standards and in their environmental standards.

Success means delivering good projects that improve the lives of your constituents.

If we have Buy America provisions, we have to have the Iron Range full steam ahead.

We would love to bring that...

The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.

We encourage local hire. It depends of course on the program.

Transportation produces more carbon emissions than any other sector at a time when the nations of the world are rallying to confront the climate challenge.

That money has got to continue because that helps the Midwest.

If our Presidency is not in good shape, then our country is not in good shape.

Thanks to leaders like Chair DeFazio, Representative Young, and so many of you, we now have the most transformative transportation investment in most of our lifetimes.

Nearly 43,000 people died in traffic crashes last year, each of them a parent or child, colleague or friend.

Justice40 is an opportunity to address gaps in transportation infrastructure and public services by working toward the goal that many of our grants, programs, and initiatives allocate at least 40 percent of the overall benefits from…

Thank you, Chair DeFazio, for 36 years of extraordinary service, and to congratulate you on your upcoming retirement.

One thing we have been working on with the Department of Energy is better sourcing of some of the elements that go into batteries, for example, ideally in the United States and, if not in the United States, then in geopolitically…

thank you in particular, Chair DeFazio, for your 36 years of extraordinary service.

Our Department is not a party to specific agreements between Amtrak and their host railroads.

We're just not party to the litigation.

I have never suggested that it would be easy for all Americans to afford electric vehicles; although again, I would point to the fact that the first EV I ever had was about $14,000, but we think that policy measures can make it more…

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) establishes the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant program.

there are some profound policy considerations that will need to be addressed in terms of the long-term viability of the Highway Trust Fund.

The first is to make the processes simpler on the front end.

I will give you just a few examples of the work we are supporting.

The second thing is to make sure that we're proactively engaging project sponsors or would-be project sponsors.

Amtrak is working actively to restore Adirondack service.