Jeff Van Drew

The FAA has gone to great lengths to obscure the proposal. The request was submitted after the House had already passed its transportation funding bill.

The proposal also sets the drone industry back at least a decade.

I thank Chairman Johnson, my always friend, for yielding. Madam Speaker, our country is experiencing an unbelievable crisis at our southern border. In August alone, the United States Customs and Border Protection encountered over 200,000…

Your April 8, 2020 letter to Representative Van Drew made clear your goal to make the WJHTC 'an even more attractive partner for public-private partnerships with industry'.

It is the responsibility of the Congress to conduct proper oversight of federal agencies...

This privatization strategy threatens the FAA's independent oversight over the aviation industry.

It seems neither in the letter nor the spirit of the law to move from the FAA's existing model...

We adamantly disagree with the claim cited in an FAA response to a request from U.S. Representative Jeff Van Drew (NJ-2) to halt the dismantling of the Tech Center...

Eighty percent--eighty percent--of the Coast Guard's total workforce is absorbed through the Training Center Cape May.

I was pleased to work with Admiral Schultz to get phase 1 of the Training Center Cape May recapitalization project listed as the Coast Guard's number-one shore infrastructure budget priority for this year.

I urge you to withdraw the FAA's reprogramming request and instead develop a forward-looking strategy...

I am troubled by the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) request to the Congress to reorganize the FAA...

Let me say to you I understand your intentions, but you say that we are doing better today than we were. It seems to be we are doing worse today than we did yesterday.

But right now we have an immediate crisis. We have an immediate situation.

Don't, please don't tell me we are going to make the whole world better in 6 months by addressing climate change and all their social problems that they have and all the military problems that they have.

Good morning Admiral Schultz and Chief Master Petty Officer Vanderhaden and thank you for appearing before the Committee for this very important hearing on the Coast Guard Budget.

Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section [4902(2)(A)] of title 14, United States Code, as amended by section [___] of this title, for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023, $60,000,000 is authorized for the Secretary of the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Katko, and thank you for having this hearing and I thank the witnesses for testifying.

Are you aware of that?

In fiscal year 2021 to date, CBP has arrested 6,918 individuals with criminal convictions.

How can we just let this happen?

Are you aware that the United States is facing the highest level of migrants at the Southwest Border in 21 years?

I believe in legal immigration.

Do you think fentanyl is a threat to America?

Well, 18 percent is a whole lot still to me, and I imagine that you would think it is too.