Pat Ryan: “If the solution--and I don't believe it is what we are discussing today--but if the solution is austerity, wage cuts…”

I want to also just emphasize again, from my and my district's perspective, the rail safety issue, to commend you and your team already for the work.

the fact that zero dollars from this huge, multibillion-dollar plan are going to go to improve service to my constituents is incredibly frustrating, and, I think, a significant public policy failure.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't get up very often and speak much on the floor, to be honest. What I heard in the few minutes here from my colleagues is, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said…

This is a pattern. If we zoom out across all these nominees, you have Matt Gaetz, you have now Hegseth, you have the president-elect himself and a whole host of others with long standing patterns of disrespect for women.