I support this legislation as a critical lifeline to small businesses coping with the crisis and the hospitals on the front lines of this war. SBA loan programs are vital to Main Street businesses across my district, and I am proud to…

I consider the bill that we are going to vote on today as a must-pass piece of legislation.

The passage of the PPP program, Paycheck Protection Program, was absolutely necessary, and replenishing it today is as well.

In Michigan, we have been deeply hard hit by this crisis.

Think about the most iconic images from 9/ 11: Just after the attacks, people running away from the towers as our first responders were running toward the flames. It was a generational event. Today, as so many stay home, those who are…

I just want to thank you for your approach to this committee.

I am working on a bill with some of my colleagues across the aisle called the Intel at Our Borders Act.

I really want to have clarity for the people who are at home who are looking to you all and to us for guidance.

Thank you, Representatives Napolitano and Westerman, for the opportunity to share my priorities for the Water Resources Development Act authorization.

In Michigan, protecting our Great Lakes is one of the most bipartisan issues, because it's about our economy and who we are as a state.

Thank you for setting up that task force as soon as you came in. That was a great thing, and I was really pleased that on a bipartisan basis in last year's Pentagon budget we passed the first six provisions into law dealing with PFAS that…

you are not the EPA and EPA has not done its job in setting a standard for what is safe and not--what is not safe. So you can't live up to that standard that doesn't exist.

I was very proud that my first six provisions that I have had turned into law as a member of Congress are on all PFAS.

I think we have an existential debate with the White House on the importance of PFAS.

We must work to protect Americans against this threat, just as we protect them from threats to our physical security.

we need to start thinking of environmental security the way we think of homeland security because it is about the safety of our kids and the preservation of our way of life.

the most important one that I am the most proud of is the PFAS Monitoring Act.

We are on the leading edge in Michigan of something that is going to be a household name in the next few years.

We passed provisions that forbids the military from using PFAS-laden firefighting foam after 2024.

if you have to worry that giving your child a glass of water is going to give them early childhood cancer, that is a threat to your family's safety.

I think you can see there is strong support. When you can get bipartisan Members of Congress to stay through an entire hearing and ask interested and engaged questions, you know that you are on a topic that has really strong bipartisan…

one day the other shoe is going to drop, and we are all going to have this issue right in our face in a much more serious way.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 47, after line 15, insert the following: (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of…

I ask for the bill to be supported, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no speakers and I am prepared to close after the gentleman closes. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has the right to close. The gentlewoman from Michigan is recognized.