Rob Garcia

I think that sounds right, and what do you think are the most important steps that Congress could take to actually build shipping capacity?

To say, no, do not get the vaccine is completely irresponsible.

I also agree that the Port Security Grant Program is critical for ports across the country.

The Majority is clearly trying to score political points with some sort of panic around whatever wokeism is.

I think we should also be as honest about what we are actually doing here.

The far right wants revenge, and they want to revenge on corporations, on working people, on everybody.

Every single Republican Member of this committee actually voted to slash that program, along with other grant programs as well.

I'm proud to represent Long Beach and the Port of Long Beach, and Port of Long Beach and LA, of course, are the largest port complex in the United States as it relates to cargo container volume.

I'm also proud to co-chair the Congressional Ports Caucus and understand how critical port infrastructure is to the Nation's economy.

our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, unfortunately, want to propose just damaging spending cuts that would damage a lot of this progress.

Investments in climate change lower the government's fiscal exposure, and that is something that has been pretty clear.

We know that in the last two years since President Biden took office, we have seen an incredible amount of progress.

I want to congratulate the work in the last two years for the incredible savings and really reforms that have made our government work better for the American people.

Despite of all this incredible progress the last Congress made, the President made, Republicans are still trying to propose cuts across our government, which is really unacceptable.

We have seen an incredible amount of progress, and a lot of us are really grateful for the work that has happened throughout the Administration.

We have demonstrated that our government can work better efficiently and still get a lot of progress for the American people.

It was President Trump and his Administration that was really facilitating the closures and trying to get us reopened, and it was a total disaster.

Republicans are still trying to propose cuts across our government, which is really unacceptable.

We also know the challenges that we face at the border are not challenges that you can take on your own and not just the responsibility of your Department.

I just want to note that these insane ideas have been proposed by former President Trump and Members of our very body here in the Congress.

It is unfortunate that so many choose to forget that immigrants make contributions to this country and can become secretaries of departments and Members of Congress.

I think it is important to note that by seeing what has happened today and the rhetoric around this really important conversation, that the Majority is not really serious about any solutions, but they are serious about a radical…

It is important to note that this committee itself cannot have credibility to discuss sensitive intelligence information if Members of the Majority are going to publicly defend people who continue to leak top secret information, which is…

We should also be very clear, and I think everyone can agree here as part of this committee, that our military is still the strongest in the world.

Obviously, if we support our men and women in uniform rather than actually trying to score political points, we might actually make some progress on this issue.