Jake Auchincloss

Congestion pricing allows cities to accurately reflect the cost of having cars in dense areas.

I will commend the Biden administration's efforts to quickly allocate the funds to our communities, as well, for maximum impact.

I am fully committed to resourcing and supporting the Coast Guard as you perform your 11 essential missions.

But Vice Admiral, you are not doing a great job, then, of pitching us on a bigger budget.

So, scarcity was the handmaiden of efficiency for you.

Thank you, Chairman.

And yet, as a member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, I want to highlight that China is not only missing in action as a purported upholder of international…

I would note for those in the United States and elsewhere who are cheering on these Houthi pirates... that they are supporting terrorists who have killed American servicemembers.

Ms. Carlson, the New York Times recently detailed a dramatic rise in pedestrian deaths in the United States in the last decade.

This is a population that experiences 80 percent unemployment.

We are actively engaged with the State, as well as the private sector contractors who are already mobilized.

This closure has been hugely inconvenient to tens of thousands of my constituents.

This is overwhelmingly supported by my constituents and by Bay Staters at large.

Thanks to the BIL, the Department has awarded $25 million in RAISE grants to Whatcom County in my district to replace the 60-year-old Lummi Island Ferry.

These dollars translate into projects on the ground and jobs for American workers.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is, and this hearing today, is another opportunity to highlight how these Federal infrastructure dollars are benefiting communities.

The militarization of the South China Sea... is a huge surface area for inadvertent or intentional escalation that could lead to conflict.

It is important just to articulate the tradeoffs so that we here on the panel, but also my constituents, can understand the imperative of the Coast Guard mission and why it is important that we support you as you recruit.

The solution is devolution. Congress should leave highway taxation and spending to the states.

The Highway Trust Fund is running such a massive deficit that the gas tax couldn't meet its needs even if it were five times higher.

Sitting next to your kids isn't a bell or a whistle. It's important, and you shouldn't have to pay for it.

We require that, if your flight is canceled, you can get your airfare back.

I wish that the gentleman from Missouri had stayed. We could have had a good colloquy because he brought up Netflix as an analogy.

Netflix is actually kind of exactly how we would hope that insurance companies and PBMs would work.

I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 3399, and I yield back the balance of my time.