Suzanne Bonamici

Innovative transportation projects in the district I represent will help more people get to work, school, and other destinations.

We need more accessible multi-modal public transportation, strong broadband internet, affordable housing, improved water systems.

Long-term investments in transportation and infrastructure boost the economy, generate jobs, and promote commerce.

I have long advocated for long-term and practical solutions to our nation's crumbling infrastructure and to the climate crisis.

I invite my colleagues to join Democrats in investing in public education and evidence-based choice programs so every family can send their child to a high-quality, accountable, and safe public school.

I am disappointed to see my colleagues on the other side of the aisle supporting low-quality education options instead of following the evidence and research.

I invite my colleagues to join democrats in investing in public education.

Our obligation is to them as well.

I find it very concerning that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle consistently criticize public schools.

Private school choice programs drain resources from public education.

Private school vouchers have also not been shown to improve students' education.

I represent many rural communities and in most of them the school is the community hub.

Unfortunately, the majority has decided to use our first subcommittee hearing of the 118th Congress not to focus on how we can strengthen public education, but rather to promote school privatization programs disguised as school choice.

Our public education system is a bedrock of our democratic republic, and I will note that it is not a commodity.

I'm hoping for more clarity and clear intent in a few areas.

I'm specifically concerned about the possibility of moving NOAA's Office of Protected Resources, or OPR, endangered species and marine mammal protection to the Department of Interior.

We must defeat this bill and turn our attention to investments that create jobs, cut costs for working families, and grow our clean energy economy for the sake of our planet, our vulnerable communities, and for future generations to come…

I hope we can work together Madam Chair and Ranking Member Scott on bipartisan solutions.

$7.25 is our national minimum wage, and that's unacceptable.

The joint employer standard doesn't affect you or other franchisees.

The bipartisan National Apprenticeship Act helped streamline that registration process, actually requires that the Department of Labor give provisional approval within a month and final approval within a year.

I think that those fair labor standards, fair wages, safe working conditions, the right to organize, those should be part of workforce development.

But I have to say I'm disappointed that many of my colleagues seem to be decoupling workforce development from workforce protections.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Oregon will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Crane The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

A problem this pervasive, a global challenge of this magnitude cannot be solved with a single bill.