Jeff Van Drew

I am thoroughly disappointed, I am thoroughly disgusted, I am thoroughly disturbed about your performance.

I look forward to hearing how MARAD is working to assure that all Federal agencies strictly apply mandatory cargo preference requirements to their programs.

I hope our former House colleague, FMC Chairman Dan Maffei, can share with us what resources he and the other Commissioners believe the FMC needs to right-size its enforcement of ocean shipping regulations.

I wish that you would resign. I do. I wish you would resign.

Global threats, such as Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and Russia's expansion into the Arctic have greatly increased the importance of the Coast Guard to America's national security.

Funding phase 2 in this year's appropriations legislation is a national security imperative.

The Coast Guard needs to seize the day, especially while it has the Congressional support to do so.

Unfortunately, we are here again addressing the exponential rise in cyber threats.

So, that tells us that hopefully if we are here again in a year, another year, that we hopefully can say, hey, we have done more, we are doing better in those areas that you just mentioned.

I am honored by your yielding and the work that you are doing in this area. We are in the midst of perhaps the widest array of crises this country has ever seen. A global pandemic, inflation, and an unstable world stage that could erupt at…

The current 5G crisis was foreseeable.

It is unfortunate that we are in this situation and it was certainly preventable.

It is clearly the FAA's top priority right now to ensure that the 5G rollout occurs in the safest and least disruptive way possible.

The issue of 5G interference with aircraft radio altimeters is very serious.

I believe that we must empower the Spectrum Engineering Office within the FAA.

This committee has no higher responsibility than ensuring the safety of the flying public.

I think we would do so much better. You can't have people in different spots doing different things not knowing.

I do not believe the FAA is currently equipped for the future of aviation spectrum management.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and thank him for his leadership. The President's most important job is to lead, to lead and protect our country. Yet time and again, all we have seen from President Biden is a failure to lead. Biden's…

The coast defines my people's way of life. We depend on the shore for livelihood, for sustenance, for recreation, and we relish its natural beauty.

It is only recently that the Congress has provided the Corps with the financial resources it needs to realize its full capabilities.

How aggressive should the Corps be in transitioning to beneficial use models?

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding and for the amazing example that she is in her leadership to our entire Congress. Madam Speaker, of particular concern to myself and many of my constituents in south Jersey is the…

I hereby remove myself as a cosponsor of H.R. 1440. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Bush). The gentleman's request is accepted. ____________________

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for doing this and for yielding and for all of his good work. Madam Speaker, I rise today, a week before one of America's oldest, most deeply rooted holidays, ashamed of what this administration is…