"We must protect our most vulnerable communities from unfettered pollution and the burden of forever chemicals and harmful contaminants."
"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."
"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 Comm..."
"So, they are going to have to do breathalyzers. All right, thanks. The answer is 'No.'"
"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."
"Even as we continue to fight a pandemic, the amount of disruption and violent behavior on planes has reached epidemic proportions."
"I would ask Members to consider supporting my bill, the National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act."
"Yeah, incidents are down 50 percent. They are still twice the level of last year."
"I look forward to hearing from today's witnesses about the enforcement of U.S. laws prohibiting such behavior."
"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 think the zero tolerance and the publicized fines have an impact, but we need more prosecutions when there are serious violent incidents on airplanes."