Peter DeFazio

Undermining the Coast Guard is not going to deliver on those goals.

However, that news hasn't penetrated, apparently, to this administration or the White House.

We believe Congress should provide direct funding to give local efforts the extra push needed to become successful in establishing a domestic rolling stock manufacturing facility

We believe Congress should also require the use of the U.S. Employment Plan which is a contractual provision that incentivizes companies to create U.S. jobs

I believe that Congress should work to reinstate a program to allow for geographic hiring preferences and geographic preference for contractors

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing last Thursday on The Impacts of State Owned Enterprises on Public Transit and Freight Rail Sectors provided Congress an opportunity to continue evaluating how best to balance…

China's strategy fits very neatly into their Made in China by 2025 plan to become the world manufacturing power in 10 years.

I believe we should pass similar legislation at the Federal level, and I have introduced the Green Bus Act to accomplish that purpose.

Logistics here is everything, and if you impede the ability to project power, you are basically impeding the ability to fight and win wars.

A cybersecurity intrusion into that particular technology could give false assurance that the hatch cover is closed.

Derailment of a chlorine vehicle, railcar, is potentially absolutely catastrophic.

The example of how a foreign manufacturer of system components can be Buy America compliant if the finished product's sub-components equal 70% of the total value of the finished product and the finished product is final assembled and…

I am determined. I got us to move to 70 percent American content.

Your goal of a truly U.S. rail manufacturer has my full support.

If the United States, through the work of Congress and the Trump Administration, can mitigate Chinese SOE anti-competitive advantages...

It is the duty of Congress to enact policies that result in a favorable market impact and to prevent the destruction of the competitive landscape for rolling stock manufacturing.

We look forward to working with the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee as we continue to look for ways to innovate, enhance and promote investment in rail infrastructure.

This bicameral, bipartisan legislation would ban Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds from being used to award a contract or subcontract to a Chinese state-owned, controlled, or subsidized enterprise.

I think we are seeing a change to great power competition, and I want to commend this committee and the bipartisan approach.

We need to stop their incursion into freight rail especially, and I think we have.

Yes, you are following the rules. The rules are defective.

Thank you, Chairman DeFazio, Ranking Member Graves, and distinguished committee members.

I have been fighting similar battles for decades. I opposed multiple Free Trade Agreements that failed to protect U.S. manufacturers and American workers.

Yeah. How about competition with a level playing field?

I said, 'Well, Larry, is it competition for an American shipyard to compete with the Government of Communist China?'