the last thing that--I can't speak for all of my colleagues, but I would imagine is that worker displacement.

Absent strong action and guidance from this Committee and others, a new generation of autonomous vehicles will provide limitless opportunity for this same pattern of reckless behavior.

We must ensure that the needs of Native American communities are met.

Is that going to happen this budget cycle if you need resources?

My bill will ensure that the Federal Government provides the seed money for public-private partnerships to implement integrated transportation systems in cities and rural communities throughout the country.

I applaud you for having this hearing with the Teamsters' voice at the table.

First of all, let me say thank you for what you have done to implement some of the recommendations.

It is just the lack of gathering and collecting data over the past three years.

I urge you to consider these possibilities with a healthy dose of realism.

Then putting a plan together to come up with any gap to address the changes that need to take place and any resources that need to be associated with it?

the Federal regulators I think failed us to some extent.

I think it is important for all of us to understand there is so much data out there and the concern when it comes to credit or how we determine somebody's creditworthiness, if we are going to take all of that data into consideration, might…

I am from Nevada and just came back from touring rural Nevada.

I would like your commitment to conduct meaningful and consistent consultation with the tribes and native organizations, not only in Alaska but across the country.

Do you agree that the evidence shows that solar and wind power can be reliably integrated into the power grid?

What I would really like to just get a commitment on... is that you are willing to work with all of those federal agencies.

We're in a transition period right now, a period from which we've had a lot of problems to a period with once the National Verifier is up and running, I am cautiously optimistic that that will solve a lot of those problems.

Unfortunately, as has been demonstrated time and time again, the FCC's Lifeline program has not lived up to this promise, especially to those that rely on these services.

I have long been troubled by the tenor of the Lifeline debate: there's a tendency to wage war on the poor, to demonize and make assumptions about Lifeline recipients.

Lifeline also is an important or essential service as part of that puzzle as well?

I think it's important that we allow companies, after those audits, to engage in reform, to learn from the audits, move forward.

Can you confirm for me whether you agree with Commissioner Clyburn that Chairman Pai's early action to cut broadband providers from the Lifeline program reduced competition in this space and could lead to minority-owned businesses and…

Broadband-only is an interstate service and, therefore, the FCC, the Federal Government, is in charge of overseeing that.

And I cannot sit here today, especially in this moment of rising white supremacy around the country and in the Oval Office, without directly confronting that these assumptions often have racist undertones.

This narrative dehumanizes people to undermine a program that we should all be proud of, and working together to improve.