To truly protect our democracy, we need truth. Truth is clear as this shard of broken glass that I have carried with me for the last 365 days.

this task force now has more than sixty Members, and it's because, as we discover the extent of PFAS contamination, Members of Congress understand that we have this responsibility to step up and defend the people that we work for.

I was able to secure $95 million in the Build Back Better Act, which hopefully will come to the President's desk in the not too distant future, to replace firefighting foam containing PFAS.

we have this obligation to protect communities, and especially to protect those firefighters.

Thank you very much to the two Chairs for holding this really important hearing.

That is why I was proud to cosponsor Representative Dingell's PFAS Action Act, an expansive bill to regulate, cleanup PFAS contamination.

We obviously have to get serious about strengthening our domestic semiconductor supply chain, and we have to act now to save American jobs.

I just want to say what a great opportunity it's been for me to serve, and continue to serve for the next year or so, with Chairwoman Johnson.

We do have our differences, but we work them out in, I think, a mostly civil manner, and that's really important.

You have to use every tool we can to get to the truth. There has to be a consequence to the failure to follow the law.

Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding and for his work on this important piece of legislation. With the Build Back Better budget, we help lower costs for the working families that I represent. We lower healthcare costs by…