Sam Graves

Thank you for the opportunity to provide a statement for the record regarding the impacts of state-owned enterprises on the public transit and freight rail sectors.

the President was right in promulgating the Executive order last night to prohibit, in essence, Huawei and ZTE from engaging in the market in the United States

I am proud to work with a bipartisan, bicameral group to introduce legislation to hold China accountable because we need to do all we can to support American workers and American-made products.

China, in particular, possesses sophisticated capabilities, and it does have a track record of committing economic espionage focused on data collection of trade secrets and intellectual property.

And for every one of those jobs we get as assembling Chinese parts over here, we lose 3.5 jobs in our economy.

With a consistently constrained capital budget, access to a broad marketplace for rolling stock, materials and services has been critical to ensuring the best product at the most competitive price for SEPTA and its funding partners…

I mean, clearly, there is something wrong with the way that is being scored, and that is not made in America.

America's tax dollars should not be used to support Chinese SOEs seeking to undermine legitimate competition.

WMATA should not be permitted to allocate 'non-federal' resources for the procurement of rail cars from CRRC.

Clearly, the law needs some clarification.

It is necessary to make improvements to longstanding Buy America laws by closing loopholes and adding additional teeth.

Any disruption or corruption to these functions or to our transportation network as a whole would have a very debilitating effect.

I support fair trade, as do all the Members in this room and on this committee, but there is nothing fair about forcing American rail and bus stock manufacturers to compete with companies who receive billions of dollars from their…

I recently introduced the House companion of S. 846, the Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act, TIVSA, that would prevent Federal transit dollars from being used to procure Chinese transportation assets.

I want to go back to Mr. Cilluffo. Just drill straight down in, you know, just to be straightforward on what this committee can do to better integrate cybersecurity and our transportation policy.

They did not know Democrats were going to take over the House. So they put the plant in Kevin McCarthy's district.

Technology modernization, which has been a priority of mine for a long time, drives improvements in safety and congestion, and it creates efficiencies.

It is important that we set the record straight. It is important that we, as I said, learn, and that we make air travel even safer.

It is important that we, as I said, learn, and that we make air travel even safer.

I just--I find that interesting, that in this case the planes didn't turn round.

Safety is the highest priority, and we have to regularly examine our safety programs.

I caution those who want to blame FAA's process that jumping to conclusions only serves to erode confidence in the U.S. aviation system.

How the hell are you the redundancy if you don't know something?

The most important safety feature in any cockpit is a well-trained pilot.

Safety is the highest priority, and we should and do regularly examine our safety programs.