While ABC recognizes the importance of maintaining environmental safeguards, CARB's regulatory overreach threatens America's contractors that work to deliver construction projects on time and on budget.

This is five weeks sitting in a courtroom when he should be outreaching the American people and telling the American people what he would like to do for this country.

Today's hearing will examine the need to reauthorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

I call on the Senate to follow suit, and I hope to work with them in the near future.

It was a privilege to work with Donald as my counterpart on this subcommittee.

In today's hearing, we will examine the need to reauthorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Deputy Administrator Brown, PHMSA is far behind schedule in completing the idle pipeline rulemaking which, as you know, is required by Congress to be promulgated by the end of December of 2022.

I mean, we had a bipartisan bill that has been sitting on Chuck Schumer's desk for months, and he has done nothing with it.

Despite such action in the House, we have yet to see any movement in the Senate from Leader Schumer and his majority.

I call on the Senate to follow suit and hope to work with them in the near future.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today and for sharing their perspectives on pipeline safety reauthorization.