If you could just elaborate a little bit on the bridge program.

During the bill's negotiations, I really did put a strong emphasis on making sure that rural and local communities and their role in the funding formula was maintained.

Thank you, Chairman Cardin. Thank you to all of our witnesses.

I think we're all better if there are more people in the race. I think we're all better if there's more of them up on the stage. So, you know, he's certainly not entitled to it.

Flexibility is really, really critical.

the bureaucracy requires, and I think coming from States like you have, and by the way, the fact that Senator Hickenlooper vouches for you is good, but the fact that former Governor Hickenlooper vouches for you is even better.

I want to speak specifically to a different rulemaking process, and that is the greenhouse gas emissions performance measure notice of proposed new rulemaking, and how I believe that that directly contradicts the bipartisan bill as well…

I think the regulations that come out of the Federal Highway Administration need to reflect that, that not every place is New York; not every place has a coast, but the coast has fierce advocates, and the mountains have fierce advocates…

We reached a consensus in this country, and we agree that there is a need to streamline regulatory review.

amid the geyser of anger in the wake of the Arizona case, Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, called for my firing, and accused me of a cover up.

Show us the subpoena. Crying out loud. It`s not like it this happens every day. This requires further explanation. Or else we are left to presume the worst.

I mean, the biggest problem with inflation, the cause of inflation, is when demand outpaces supply.

The only thing that concerns me about that is that--that sounds swell until the local community decides it is not worth the funding, in which case you have solved no problem.

I could not improve upon what has already been said about the work on this important bill. Senator Capito has articulated much more eloquently than I all of the priorities that are important in the bill. I am just going to add my thanks to…

reserving the right to object, I would be happy to have a vote on this this afternoon. But the decision isn't mine; it is the bureaucrats at DHS. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from…

reserving the right to object, this nominee has been failed by the bureaucracy that he attempts to join. For months, I have been working with the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security--USCIS specifically--to rectify an…

CCUS is clearly a topic near and dear to North Dakota, as is obvious by one of our witnesses.

It is one of the times Senator Whitehouse and I really get to dig in on the same side of something.

This proposed rule needs to be fully rescinded. It is dumb policy.

The Biden Administration's Federal Highway Administration is veering off course once again.

Oversight is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

One of the concerns, at least in North Dakota, and one of the concerns we have, frankly, going forward, is that you might recall that the proposed rule said that North Dakota could reduce emissions by 11 percent.

the thing that is missing, frankly, in our Federal Government these days is federalism.

I am going to try to avoid asking you a question that would require you to abstain based on the Supreme Court situation, which I think is prudent.

We don't want Federal mediocrity imposed upon us.