Chris Van Hollen

Let me, just another thank you, because for years Maryland worked to try to get the EPA to adopt the Air Pollution Good Neighbor Rule.

I am glad that that plan did not go forward.

Thank you for those consultations. I just want to affirm that we are on the same page with respect to the goals.

The Great American Outdoors Act permanently authorized funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund to support our efforts to conserve lands and improve outdoor recreation opportunities across the Nation.

I was surprised. I just have to say, on the zeroing out the Wild program.

We think this is a priority. So, do we have your commitment to work on that?

I was very disappointed, very disappointed that the budget that was submitted by the Biden Administration zeroed out the funding for this program.

I just want your commitment that you will work with us to expand the reach of our wind power operations in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic.

I am confident we will restore it.

We are so grateful to Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Well, I appreciate that, and we introduced work together on the National Transit Workforce Act as well, and I was pleased to see the FTA stand up the training center.

I just want to make a mention of the Red Line in Baltimore. As we all know, this was a big priority of the Maryland delegation for a long time.

I was really pleased that we were successful at including a lot of those provision in the Bipartisan Infrastructure modernization legislation.

I have to give accolades to Senator Chris Van Hollen because what he did not only was authoring the bill, he continued to have steady communications with the labor leaders and Maryland to ask them, 'How is it going?' 'Where are you at?'…

We are grateful for Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

We are working with the Commerce Committee to move that legislation forward quickly.

For as long as we have had big banks, they have had too much power in this town.

The railroads think that a train that is more than two miles long only needs one crew member.

Wall Street banks spent the ensuing years lobbying to roll back safeguards we passed in the wake of that crisis.

We are so grateful to Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Well, I appreciate that, and we introduced work together on the National Transit Workforce Act as well, and I was pleased to see the FTA stand up the training center.

Yeah. Well, we are going to push them because the uneven implementation of this around the country is concerning, especially in light of the ongoing risks to transit workers.

I just want to make a mention of the Red Line in Baltimore. As we all know, this was a big priority of the Maryland delegation for a long time.

Well, I appreciate that, and I understand from your testimony that right now FTA is relying on you, the ATU, to make determinations as to whether local transit agencies are in compliance.

I was really pleased that we were successful at including a lot of those provision in the Bipartisan Infrastructure modernization legislation.