Safety has and must continue to be a focus of the surface transportation reauthorization bill.

As you examine the pressure the trucking industry faces, we hope you will consider the benefits identified by The Americans for Modern Transportation Coalition.

Today, I want an honest assessment of what we have gotten right and what we have gotten wrong over the last 17 years.

assisting States with the tools they need to protect their election systems is the proper role for the Federal Government.

I believe we must approach election security on three fronts.

Election security is one of the most important issues that this Committee is tasked with, and I take the Committee's role of ensuring fair and secure elections very seriously, as I know you do too.

voter fraud does exist, and we must ensure our States are prepared against it.

we must work together to make sure the progress in keeping our Nation's election system secure and free from inference is our number-one priority.

we can make a bunch of partisan noise. We can do that here today and blame one another for who should have done more to protect our elections. Or we can make progress.

For the Federal Government to come over and to overreach and to take over the administration of the elections at all levels, first, I don't think it is appropriate. Secondly, I don't think it is constitutional.

I am for an election system remaining--I am for election systems remaining as critical infrastructure.

We know that at least 21 States were targeted by a foreign state actor prior to the 2016 U.S. election and we know that Russia undertook a misinformation campaign during the same election.