Water quality and the protection of our surface water resources is not a partisan issue.

We must protect our most vulnerable communities from unfettered pollution and the burden of forever chemicals and harmful contaminants.

We have to ensure that toxic chemicals are no longer included in the manufacturing of plastic products that we use every day.

The Trump EPA needlessly weakened Clean Water Act protections over rivers, streams, and wetlands that provide drinking water to over 117 million Americans.

There should be zero discharge of plastic pellets.

This is our first hearing in about 10 years on emerging and persistent threats to our water and how these threats affect human health and the health of our communities and our environment.

The Biden administration has started to restore the critical mission of EPA to protect human health and the environment.

Thank you, Chair Norton, for holding this hearing. I commend you for your leadership of the Subcommittee and for holding hearings on important topics that have not had a dedicated hearing in this Committee before--tribal transportation…

Yeah, incidents are down 50 percent. They are still twice the level of last year.

I think the zero tolerance and the publicized fines have an impact, but we need more prosecutions when there are serious violent incidents on airplanes.

I would ask Members to consider supporting my bill, the National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act.

the FAA is dragging its feet on secondary barriers, which we mandated a number of years ago, but that is an issue for another day.

I was encouraged to see this week that FAA urged airlines to take additional steps to address this issue.

Can one airline share it with another? Could there be a common database?

Even as we continue to fight a pandemic, the amount of disruption and violent behavior on planes has reached epidemic proportions.

But the airports need to crack down on these vendors, or we need to find a way to induce the airports to crack down on these vendors.

I made aviation safety and enhancing the air travel experience for passengers and crews a priority.

So, they are going to have to do breathalyzers. All right, thanks. The answer is 'No.'

I look forward to hearing from today's witnesses about the enforcement of U.S. laws prohibiting such behavior.

But I think it`s going to get dicey because a lot of people in the House are not entirely happy. The progressives don`t like all of it.

We owe our strongest thanks to Chairman DeFazio for the creation of the program and for his steadfast support through each iteration.

While I believe the COVID-19 relief funding was absolutely critical in addressing the dire economic situation and public health catastrophe, I also commend the oversight community for identifying problems, highlighting cases of ineffective…

In July, we held the first part of this hearing examining oversight of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating public health consequences for our nation and the world.

It would be wise to do so.