Earl Blumenauer

I support the law of the land, which requires states to spend funds on mass transit.

Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), as well as the ranking member of this committee Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), introduced H.R.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes.

I deeply appreciate the gentleman convening this Special Order this evening. It has been fun working with him in the past on creative, bipartisan efforts to try and make sure the Federal Government is a better partner on this. I look…

I would like to acknowledge Subcommittee Members Diane Black and Earl Blumenauer whose bipartisan leadership on this issue led to the 2015 announcement of the MA V-BID model test.

I see this blunt one-size-fits-all approach as penny wise and pound foolish.

Well, I am hopeful that we won't ignore the areas of controversy, but I subscribe wholeheartedly to the notion let's start where we can, establish the principles, spread the benefit.

I think this is an area that we can actually find bipartisan agreement.

We have a country that is falling apart, and we are falling behind.

We have dramatically reduced funding. Every year costs of households, businesses, and government goes up.

The notion of the potential for scammers taking advantage of our constituents, people who are looting the treasury because they have found ways to be able to penetrate the system and get fraudulent returns.

Water instability is a threat to our security, compromising cross-border conflicts, leading to famine.

Having the drought in the countryside, not having access to water, moving people to the cities created a situation.

Having disease and not having drinkable water in this flashpoint in the Middle East is going to be destabilizing for Israel and for the United States.

One I would point out deals with placing a higher priority on conservation.

I hope there is an opportunity to spend more time and attention on some of these things that don't quite get in the spotlight.

The Department of Agriculture is the only department that can build a community from the ground up.

I was sad that it was cut in the last Farm Bill.

I think it is past time to take a hard look at the trillion-dollar commitment that is made for enhancing our nuclear commitment over the next several decades.

We have talked about it before. Other people can conjure things up and be aspirational, but you folks have to allocate the dollars.

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I appreciate the thrust of the hearing to be able to get into some of the details, not only because how serious the deficit--or how immediate, I guess, the deficit we have to contend with really serves to, I think, constrict what Congress…

It is amazing that Iran is one of the few countries in the Middle East where the majority of the people still like the United States, unlike some of our so-called allies over there. Admittedly, there are people in the leadership in Iran…

It would be great if the assembled multitude represented here of all the various agricultural interests could lean in a little bit on that process.

Enforcing trade agreements is expensive, it is time consuming, it is hard.