We can build all the cutters in the world, but we need personnel training to operate those vessels.

the fact that we are going to lose some of them, a good number of them if--unless this vaccine mandate changes is obviously, I think, going to increase that challenge even more.

That is the reason why we are asking the administration, you know, to at least give some sense of parity when it comes to the vaccine mandate deadlines.

The U.S. Coast Guard is expanding operations across the country, of course, as you know, and across the world.

I was really pleased to work with Commandant Schultz to get phase 1 of the Training Center Cape May recapitalization project listed as the Coast Guard's number one housing shore infrastructure budget priority for 2021.

I think the Coast Guard can be very essential in this entire process, and as we move on and times change and things change, so does their role, and I think this is an area we really should focus on as well.

I think there is really unexplored areas there that we can really do great things together. Coast Guard is a great agency, as you know, and I think they really can offer a great deal if we are working in tandem, if we are working in partnership.

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.

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

I urge you to withdraw the FAA's reprogramming request...

This deal would kneecap the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center.