I want to thank the chair, and I want to thank the full committee chair, Mr. DeFazio, because he has been an outstanding champion of expanding and improving upon our ferry systems.

I actually had a bill that dealt with converting diesel buses in the transportation bill and converting the entire postal fleet to electric.

I represent the Port of Boston, so not quite as bad, congestion-wise, as Mr. Sires is having in New Jersey, but we consider our ferry system a real blessing.

I have had an opportunity during my time in Congress to visit quite a few prisons in Massachusetts and in my district...

Forget going into these school boards and bringing data. You go into school boards to remove them.

Thanks to Chairwoman Waters, we are finally getting back into the business of affordable housing.

I am all in on public housing. Look, if we didn't have public housing, my family and I would have been homeless.

Forget going into these school boards bringing data, you go into school boards to remove them. That’s what you do. Forget -- they don’t follow the law. They don’t follow the law. You go in and you remove them. I’m going in with 20 strong…

One of the solutions, I think, is really to have Federal resources. You know, encourage and build incentives for young people to get into STEM-related professions.

I think right now we have got about--a little more than three percent of the IT workers in the Federal Government are under 30 years of age and half of the IT work force is over 50.

it's critically important for DOE to conduct a cybersecurity assessment of our electrical distribution systems