Elaine Chao: “About a quarter of our Nation's bridges are deemed structurally deficient.”

The importance of the Gateway Program cannot be overstated.

If we did not have the Merchant Marine assets to assist the great halls on these campaigns, the military naval campaigns, our country would not have been able to supply our troops.

We want to work with Congress to position the Federal Government as a catalyst for safe, efficient technologies, not as an impediment.

Many of these regulations can slow down a project and stifle that economic progress, can create uncertainty for businesses, the project itself, increase the time it takes to construct the project, increase the cost of that project.