Collaboration on these issues is critical.

It is really important for us to address these critical needs as quickly as possible, and we are very grateful for your work and your leadership.

I, too, thank my colleague, Mrs. Miller, for introducing this bill. And I thank Chairman DeFazio and the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Larsen, for moving this bill through the process. It is important to families across America. And, once…

I appreciate Mr. Meadows' partnership on this, and I look forward to working together on many more projects that are of real assistance to the people who we represent. Mr. Speaker, the HELP Act, as we have discussed, is a commonsense…

I, too, believe this is commonsense legislation, and I am pleased to see it brought to the floor today. I support H.R. 4719, and I urge my colleagues to join me in passing this important, bipartisan legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back…

Thank you, Chairwoman Stevens. I join you, and Ranking Members Baird and Marshall, in welcoming all of you today for today's joint hearing.

Unfortunately, my constituents in Houston know all too well the wind damage that we see from hurricanes, and the devastating impact that they can have.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how we can better improve the transfer of this research to the building code communities.

We can't ignore that, and we have to be doing exactly what we've been talking about today to incentivize that and really keep this miracle going where we can actually have our cake and eat it too.

I look forward to hearing from our expert witnesses today about how this important technology works...

That's why I worked closely with my colleagues on our Committee, including our Committee Chairwoman, Representative Johnson...

I think we've seen today that in this Congress, this Committee has a strong track record of working together in a bipartisan way to solve problems and to support science, and that is critically important.