I look forward to hearing from both of our witnesses today about the difference this budget certainty has made for them in developing and sustaining programs.

The demand for more frequent, more reliable passenger rail service is real.

I celebrate the return of the service and note, though, that it took 3 years to restore.

It took 17 years to get agreement there to restart service after Hurricane Katrina.

Upon learning of 'Operation Fouled Anchor' in June 2023, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure opened an investigation.

I am curious. One of the biggest challenges we have with permitting is regulatory certainty.

The key is sustained, focused attention on this class of criminality by the agency most capable and empowered to fight it.

We applaud the initiative of Sen. Mike Braun and Rep. Mike Bost in urging OIG to create an antifreight fraud task force.

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The men and women who keep the cogs turning in factories and repair facilities and cockpits and air traffic control towers across the country are not only instrumental to ensuring the safety of the traveling public, but they are also ensuring the global competitiveness of the American aerospace system.

We have got to find better ways to train safer and better skilled pilots and give folks the credit for the skill that they demonstrate or the high-quality training that they receive.