This hearing is timely. As folks know, Senator Fischer and I are preparing to introduce our second maritime reauthorization bill.
This country's ports, vessels, and Merchant Marine forces are absolutely critical to our Nation's economic growth and military preparedness ...
Residents of my state of New Jersey know this well. New Jersey is home to the Port of New York and New Jersey, which has moved more than 120...
I'm really worried about the decline of the U.S. Merchant Marine in general, and the effect it is having on our preparedness, on our economy...
the more we wait, the more expensive it gets, not just because when you are trying to fix your roof, the longer you wait, the worse the dama...
Without this reaffirmation, and without a clear commitment that the government will work diligently to achieve this objective, we will conti...
We have trashed that infrastructure, allowed it to decline dramatically, and we are suffering as a result of that.
if we were running this like America, Inc., as opposed to whatever the mishegas is that we are calling this, the way we are running Congress...
I think we have a crisis in this Country in terms of the toxicity and how it affects our children.
I have reintroduced the same legislation that was reauthorized by Ronald Reagan.
the asthma rates are about three, four times higher. No. 1 reason why children are missing schools; the lack of productivity, the impact it ...