I thank Mr. McHenry for his leadership on this, and for his co-sponsorship. I want to particularly cite Steny Hoyer, not only as a great friend, but as one who really helped shepherd this to the floor today. These are not easy. In fact, I…

We owe it to our constituents to do better, which is why Republicans are asking you to please, come back to the table and work with us.

This is a program that works. It takes those older vehicles off the road. As far as I know, industry supports this. It is better for our communities, which is why our committee, under both Republican and Democratic chairmen and…

I want to do what we can, particularly on a bipartisan basis, to resolve this.

if TSA does not want to be taken seriously, we may have to look at other options.

We should continue to build on those bi-partisan practices this time around.

Pipeline safety is one of my highest priorities this Congress, and I had hoped we could work on this bill together.

We have millions of miles of pipelines and we can always do better, and we need to learn from those mistakes.

To be frank, this bill does not have a chance of passing the Senate and getting signed by the President.

Eighty percent doesn't cut it. We need to have the success rate of a hundred percent.

H.R. 2075, which is the School-Based Health Centers Reauthorization Act of 2019, this is a bill that I strongly believe in.

Michigan, we have been particularly hard hit with this. Our Governor did a really good job of working with every community in our State to find out what municipal water systems might be impacted.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 221. ____________________

When we worked on 21st Century Cures, we spent a whole lot of time about thinking about policies that advanced new treatments for patients who had no therapies available.

Comprehensive and bipartisan solutions exist today to deal with these toxic, manmade, forever chemicals.

Michigan is ground zero for PFAS sites, but it is because we are looking at it and addressing it.

I appreciate it. I intend to be here most of the morning and ask questions at my turn at the end.

Well, thank you again, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate being allowed to sit on this subcommittee that I am not normally a member of, and I appreciate your leadership and Mr. Shimkus's and the hardworking staff as well.

We want to work with the administration and get it done.

Congress must move forward and now.

This is an issue that maybe Michigan knows better than anybody else just because we have done more discovery than anybody else.

Over the past decade, we have emerged as the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas.

I believe that we owe this dramatic turnaround to free market competition, American ingenuity, and certainly technological innovations that were driven, in part, through research conducted by the DOE.

I believe we owe this dramatic turnaround to free market competition, American ingenuity, and technological innovations.

I would much appreciate your proposal to include some funding to restart the defense of the Yucca Mountain license before the NRC.