Kathleen Rice: “I just want to thank you for your opening statement about how this is not a Republican or a Democratic issue; it is an…”

I think what we are--the subject matter of today's hearing brings me to that--again to that issue of how we get people around safely and efficiently.

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.

Stony Brook University on Long Island, of which I represent a piece, is one of the foremost academic institutions developing innovative quantum technologies.

Whether due to poor State, local, and Federal coordination, understaffing, or even a lack of political will, the elderly and people of color do not benefit from Federal disaster relief compared to other Americans.