Peter DeFazio: “There is no good reason to sideline the health, safety, and wellbeing of working people in this country.”

I am proud of the work of this committee and this Congress, as a whole, for these last 2 years to break through that inertia and deliver for the American people.

And if the Federal--we haven't adjusted the Federal gas tax--I was here when we did it, 1993.

As polar ice steadily decreases, new trade routes will emerge, linking Asia, North America, and Europe.

It has been three decades--I have been here 36 years, and I was in my second term when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, signed by G.H.W. Bush and significantly amended in 2008 and signed by G.W. Bush.