Seth Moulton

The Trump administration set us on a withdrawal timeline for this month, and it's clear from the testimony this morning that they laid out no clear plans for how that would actually be accomplished.

It's clear that we will not win the war in Afghanistan. But there are still many disastrous ways that we can lose.

My bill, the American High-Speed Rail Act, ensures operators are deemed carriers, upholds hard-won protections like Buy America and Davis-Bacon, and requires FRA to promulgate standards and regulations for high-speed rail.

We fully endorse President Biden's initiatives to improve America's passenger rail experience.

Thank you for your question Congressman Moulton. Metro looks forward to working with you and members of the 117th Congress to advance the mobility needs of Los Angeles County's ten million residents.

You spoke during your testimony about high-speed rail's potential to renew the American Dream in the form of affordable and equitable housing.

I just do not understand why we would not be aspiring to be the best in the world, rather than be behind literally everyone else when we talk about building a transportation technology.

I have been a huge supporter of Amtrak for many years in Congress and beyond.

There is no reason that the Southwest can't be united like the Northeast is.

If we build a high-speed rail, no one is going to force you to take it. You have that freedom of choice that Americans do not have today.

That's going to take a lot of space.

I understand that, Judge, and I agree that that is how the project was initially sold. It's interesting, you know, you never hear of a highway project being sold on private investment because frankly, the business community does not see a…

We've actually--Judge, we've actually transferred about $158 billion in general funds, so you know, not quite twice as much but almost twice as much as we've invested in Amtrak in its entire history into the Highway Trust Fund.

Without effective enforcement, rules and norms obviously limit our own activity in space but do nothing to impede malign activity by our adversaries.

Were these Marines risking their lives for something that, realistically, we aren't going to ever do?

So there is a lot to be discussed there in the broader committee.

I remember sitting on the deck of an amphibious ship off the coast of Kuwait before the Iraq invasion and loading ammunition into our rifles that was dated 1967 and 1968 for the Vietnam war.

As a Marine veteran of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, this is a situation that I know well.

We need to improve the culture of being able to question authority.

It is critical to me that we get to the bottom of this investigation to understand what happened here.

Thankfully, there is effort by Representatives Adam Smith and Seth Moulton that would increase the fund to $40,000.

By remaining overly focused on short-term risk, we are trading our readiness for great power competition.

I recently co-led a letter with Representative Wittman to Secretary Austin and Deputy Secretary Hicks expressing concerns about the impact the current rate of additional Requests for Forces (RFFs) above the GFMAP has on overtaxing our…

If the Biden administration reverses that trend so that America once again leads the world, then this will absolutely not be putting China first, as one of my colleagues claimed.

Now, you and I have discussed my American high-speed rail bill, which fundamentally puts high-speed rail on the table as a proven alternative.