Brian Fitzpatrick

I was proud to partner with my colleague on this committee, Representative Castro, to sponsor the Global Child Thrive Act.

I hope that the Committee will consider these two important pieces of legislation that will help protect our friends in need of these protections.

These time-honored traditions are crucial to our upstate way of life and we will not allow them to decline.

I will continue to push to bring more product from our local farmers into our public schools.

I would like to bring to the Committee's attention H.R. 2442, the Puppy Protection Act.

This legislation helps to bolster the actions that the Department of Agriculture is currently taking with their rule proposal which seeks to eliminate automatic license renewals.

This bipartisan bill would amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the issuance or the renewal of a license to dog breeders and exhibitors until they have demonstrated compliance through facility inspection.

I am here today to urge the Committee to take up two very important bills, pieces of legislation, regarding animal protection.

This law is not a panacea, but it certainly helps our small farmers.

I urge the Committee to better tailor our Federal policy to support family owned farms.

Many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle were disturbed with the closure of the Riverside call center.

Congress spoke, passed laws meant to secure our aircraft, but key weaknesses still exists.

How can this be allowed? Instead of moving forward on protecting Americans, the FAA will once again drag their feet and ask for an extension.

The mission is not complete until we get retrofitting. We will not stop until we get secondary barriers in every single aircraft that carries passengers.

That is why I introduced the Stop Underrides Act with our Transportation Committee colleague Mark DeSaulnier, and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio, to require all large truck trailers to have front, side, and rear underride…

That is why I introduced the bipartisan Horse Transportation Safety Act (H.R. 1400) along with Representatives Peter King, and Transportation Committee members Dina Titus and Brian Fitzpatrick, to ensure the humane and safe transportation…

I'm the co-chair of the Ukrainian Caucus here in Congress. There's been some concern regarding military training, lack of support in Donbas, and the precedent that we're setting by allowing an annexation to occur in clear violation of…

As an FBI agent, one of the most horrific crimes that we were called upon to investigate was human trafficking.

The EPA must designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the SuperFund Act.

It is my firm belief that the framework we have in place to regulate these chemicals can work, if implemented the right way.

By recognizing these chemicals as hazardous substances, the EPA can then require polluters to clean up the contamination that they cause.

I introduced legislation--bipartisan legislation--with Congressman Jack Bergman, along with Senator Debbie Stabenow, to conduct a study to determine the scope of PFAS chemical contamination across the country.

These chemicals represent one of the most widespread public health crises we as a Nation currently face.

It's my view that the Defense Department in particular has so far failed to act with the required urgency to address this growing public health and environmental crisis.

I think we need this wall built.