Chris Van Hollen

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We all know what they really wanted to do--maximize profits, risks be damned.

I certainly hope he will do that in partnership with his allies, the United States and others.

We were, of course, all alarmed by the images of the attacks on democracy in Brazil following Bolsonaro's exit.

I applaud the President and the Biden administration for looking at the issue of how we tax work unfairly relative to wealth.

This budget will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next ten years.

I applaud you and the President for going even further in this budget, in terms of saving costs for seniors on Medicare.

A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.

If this one lock, which is the only large functioning lock we have went down, this would be devastating to our economy.

We certainly don't want to do what we again are hearing from House proposals, raise the age of Social Security to 70 or Medicare to 70.

For when you would put up temporary fencing, under emergency situations, which is certainly understandable and justifiable.

Speaker McCarthy authorized the release of more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the awful events of January 6.

The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank both of you for your leadership, and for the participation, and good work and service of all your teams, in making sure that our Capitol can be safe, and functioning well.

I certainly hope he will do that in partnership with his allies, the United States and others.