Debbie Dingell

Thank you, Chairwoman Schakowsky, and thank you for holding this hearing, and to all of you that are testifying today.

This ain`t the time to create drama in people`s lives. We`re in the middle of a pandemic.

We need both bills. I want to be very clear on that.

Failure is not an option. We have got to get this figured out.

I think it`s very important. I think it`s important that the President engage with House members.

I think 3.5 is where we`re looking right now. You know that bill is also my bill, it is the Dingell bill in the House, and it`s not enough money.

So I don’t think it’s going to be pretty for the next two weeks. I think there’s going to be a lot of discussions, a lot of negotiations, a lot of back and forth, a lot of intensity, a lot of passion. But we can’t fail.

The Clean Energy & Sustainability Accelerator Act (Accelerator) is a bipartisan bill that would create an independent nonprofit Accelerator to function as a national green bank.

I have heard concerns that the 5-year requirement in this bill would effectively limit consent decrees to 5 years.

If this bill becomes law, could the Commission be able to bring those types of cases in the future? I think it would make it significantly more difficult.

In my view, a number of bills we are discussing today could have detrimental effects on the FTC's ability to carry out its essential consumer protection mission.

But, in contrast, under the SHIELD Act, companies can use adherence to agency guidance to prove that they did not commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice.

Instead of the company proving that a consent decree is no longer necessary, the burden would be on the FTC to prove that it is still necessary.

When you don’t get things that are important to the American people, when things just stop, then there are times that you just have to stand up and say this has to get done.

I think we need to think about helping them understand what the access to--what vaccines they are--they need to have.

Thank you so much, Representative Dingell, for this question.

Thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Guthrie, for convening this very important bipartisan hearing to discuss improving public health through vaccination.

I think we have a lot of problems that we`ve got to come together on and reach across the aisle and people that have been pitted against each other for the last four years need to start working together.

Tomorrow, Congresswoman Dingell will be voting on a House bill to create a 9/11 style bipartisan commission to investigate the attack on the capital on January 6 by a Trump mob after Donald Trump urged them to go to the Capitol and fight…

What I want you to do is to let us know specific policies that we should be doing in these next few weeks that are beyond what we are doing.

I am leading legislation to expand the ATVM program to medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, and to modernize ATVM to help develop supply chain manufacturing in the United States with American workers.

This is a great example of American ingenuity.

It is great to see you, my dear friend.

I reintroduced legislation to create a clean energy and sustainability accelerator.

The hard truth: AVs are here and every day we do not have a Federal framework in place for the safe deployment of AVs we risk falling behind the rest of the world.