"After running on reducing the federal spending and the deficit, House Republicans have put forward a budget busting bill that will take healthcare away from millions of Americans and food away from hu..."
"I had prepared questions about Alaska, but I guess I want you to talk more about what your needs are in a delicate way so we are not announcing it to all of our adversaries, but tell us how we can hel..."
"Thank you, President Biden, the Department of Transportation, and yourself personally for the work you have done."
"I cannot tell you what it means to the people of the south coast to have hope that we will have jobs again."
"I think your Department is drunk on money, I think you are drunk on power, and I think we have to wheel it back."
"Unfortunately, the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget cuts to ocean research could have real impacts on NOAA's work in Oregon for ocean health."
"The entire Oregon Delegation, Democrats and Republicans, have made it very clear and signed letters to say that we want the WOOP to remain in place."
"I want to be abundantly clear. Representative Bentz and I share Roseburg as a district... It is vitally important that that stay in the WOOP."
"We have an extreme backlog of infrastructure investments. For instance, in two of the six counties that I represent, Lane and Douglas County, each one of which is about the size of Connecticut, we hav..."
"The fact is the Highway Trust Fund is becoming insolvent."
"I think the first part is also that we have difficulty recruiting CDL drivers everywhere, but in rural communities, where they are driving buses and they are driving trucks, it is really difficult bec..."
"My colleague, Mr. Duarte, has put forward H.R. 7157, the Strengthen Wood Product Supply Chains Act, which claims to improve the Lacey Act for importers by instituting very ambitious enforcement timeli..."