"The PSP has saved the jobs of hundreds of thousands of aviation workers, including mine."
"I think we should--I have run into that with a trucking company that does a lot of DoD work, too. And I think staff will need to follow up with Treasury and see how much of that money has been committ..."
"Thanks to you and Bob Gibbs, ranking member, for being willing to conduct the first ever virtual hearing for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee."
"It is a fairly extraordinary day, but these are extraordinary times, and in order to get our work done, we have to take extraordinary measures."
"He painted a pretty grim picture of the conditions in the maritime industry, the loss of revenues and movement of freight and supplies."
"We can also move forward in the very near future to marking up significant legislation that the country needs."
"We need everything from personal protective equipment [PPE] for port workers, and we have heard a good deal about that, to assistance to deal with the marine terminal operators."
"It is vitally important that this committee understand how the pandemic has affected the reliability and efficiency of our maritime industry."
"We can't have them all go out of business, can't reconstitute this easily or quickly."
"Despite the leadership of Chairman DeFazio and some of us who feel very strongly about a direct assistance, maritime-specific assistance to address COVID-19 needs, it is pretty clear, though, to a lot..."
"Make no mistake about it; our Nation will recover from this pandemic. The fundamental question is: how quickly?"